The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker - ISBN: 9780141030944
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War fractures identity: A soldier’s inner battle threatens to consume him.

The Eye in the Door

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2008

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Summary

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 …

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141030944
ISBN-10:0141030941
Author:Pat Barker
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 May 2008
Weight:228g
Dimensions:199mm x 130mm x 22mm
Series:Regeneration
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Critics Review

Gripping, moving, beautifully constrcted and profoundly intelligent

Gripping, moving, beautifully constrcted and profoundly intelligent Independent on Sunday

About The Author

Pat Barker

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, she sent her fiction out. Thirty-five years later, she has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won the UK’s highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy continues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham.

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