Novels by Pat Barker (Study Guide) - Regeneration, the Ghost Road, Border Crossing, Blow Your House Down, the Eye in the Door, Life Class (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Regeneration, the Ghost Road, Border Crossing, Blow Your House Down, the Eye in the Door, Life Class, the Century's Daughter, the Man Who Wasn't There, Another World, Double Vision, Union Street. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: For the 1997 film adaptation of the novel see Regeneration (1997 film). Regeneration is a prize-winning novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication. It is the first of three novels in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War, the other two being The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize in 1995. The novel is based on the real-life experiences of British army officers being treated for shell shock during World War I at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. Barker attributes the immediate inspiration for Regeneration to her husband, a neurologist familiar with the writings of Dr. W.H.R. Rivers and his experiments with nerve regeneration. The novel begins with Dr. W.H.R. Rivers, an army psychiatrist at Craiglockhart War Hospital (a mental institution at the time), reading poet Siegfried Sassoons declaration against the continuation of the war. Sassoons "wilful defiance of military authority" has led to Sassoon being labelled "shell-shocked," a label which the authorities hope will discredit his views on the continuation of the war. Rivers states that he feels uneasy about Sassoon entering Craiglockhart, doubting that he is shell-shocked; he is uncomfortable about the prospect of sheltering a "conchie." Sassoons friend and fellow poet Robert Graves advises Sassoon to give up his protest against t...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=9002