The Ghost Road
The third novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Publisher Description
The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence of the Girls
'An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe
'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' Sunday Times
'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' Independent
1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation. The Ghost Road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the First World War.
The Regeneration Trilogy:
Regeneration
The Eye in the Door
The Ghost Road
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Pat Barker’s World War I novel imagines the relationship between real-life psychiatrist and ethnographer William Rivers and a fictional patient recovering from shell shock in a Scotland war hospital. After being treated by Dr. Rivers, Lieutenant Billy Prior—an accomplished British Army officer, extreme cynic and compulsive bisexual—returns to France for a fourth brutal tour of trench warfare. Meanwhile, Rivers is stricken by influenza and feverishly relives a bone-chilling field study he conducted on the remote Eddystone Island. With spare prose and striking imagery, 1995’s Man Booker winner is a darkly humorous and strangely beautiful novel peopled by an intriguing cast of soldier poets, scientists and tribal headhunters.
