The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

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’.

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 and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her latest novel is The Silence of the Girls.

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ISBN 13	9780140168785
ISBN 10	0140168788
Title	The Eye in the Door
Author	Pat Barker
Series	Regeneration
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1994-08-25
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of Guardian Fiction Prize 1993
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