Regeneration: The first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy (Penguin Essentials, 41)

Regeneration: The first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy (Penguin Essentials, 41)

by PatBarker (Author)

Synopsis

Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims - whatever they may be - and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. As a witness to the traumas they have endured, can he in all conscience send them back to the horrors of the trenches?

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 14 Aug 2014

ISBN 10: 0241970768
ISBN 13: 9780241970768

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.