Regeneration
Series: Penguin Celebrations
by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction / A - C
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 6 September 2007
Number of pages: 256
Description:
When Siegfried Sassoon publicly proclaims that the war is being needlessly prolonged, the authorities declare him mentally unsound and send him to Doctor Rivers at Craiglockhart war hospital, where he is charged with making Sassoon 'see sense and return to the front'. Whilst in his care Sassoon meets a young and timid poet, Wilfred Owen, and a working class officer named Prior who, through shock or possibly choice, has lost the ability to speak.
What the papers say:
A brilliant novel. Intense and subtle Sunday Times
Author's Biography:
Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991), which was made into a film of the same name, The Eye in the Door (1993), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing and Double Vision. She lives in Durham.
In Stock: 6 copies
