The Eye In The Door

Author: Pat Barker

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  • : $20.00 AUD
  • : 9780141030944
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : May 2008
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Regeneration
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Description

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. "The Eye in the Door" is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it. This is the second book in the "Regeneration" trilogy.

Reviews

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

Author description

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.