The Eye in the Door

by PatBarker (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $6.49

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  1994

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  Set in London in 1918, The Eye in the Door is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in Regeneration . The Eye in the Door was awarded the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, while the final volume in the Regeneration trilogy, The Ghost Road , won the Booker Prize in 1995. Writing in the Sunday Times , Peter Kemp said, 'In the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly forms. At the forefront of her story, Barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexuals ...a sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor'.

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  The Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogy. Winner Of The 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize. London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be...The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it. A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians. (A S Byatt, Daily Telegraph). Every bit as waveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor. (Sunday Times). Startlingly original...spellbinding. (Sunday Telegraph). Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent...bursting with energy and darkly funny. (Independent on Sunday). Other titles in the trilogy: Regeneration The Ghost Road.