War Talk (Pocket Penguins)

War Talk (Pocket Penguins)

by PatBarker (Author)

Synopsis

Taken from Pat Barker's celebrated Regeneration, War Talk charts two encounters in a time of war - the developing friendship of Wilfed Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and the unexpected romance of Billy Prior and Sarah Lumb.

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2 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 06 May 2005

ISBN 10: 0141023112
ISBN 13: 9780141023113

Author Bio
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her new novel, The Silence of the Girls, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in August 2018.