Product Description

'"The Ghost Road" is a startlingly good novel ...With the other two volumes of the trilogy, it forms one of the richest and most rewarding works of fiction of recent times. Intricately plotted, beautifully written, skilfully assembled, tender, horrifying and funny, it lives on in the imagination, like the war it so imaginatively and so intelligently explores' - "Times Literary Supplement".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32482 in Books
• Published on: 1996-07-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
Booker Prize Winner in 1995. August 1918, and Lieutenant Billy Prior stops en route to the trenches to meet William Rivers, the psychiatrist who helped him overcome shellshock earlier during the 'war to end wars'. Prior, a working class bisexual who moves between male and female lovers, between social classes, and between the mutually incomprehensible worlds of civilian life and the Front, is a completely fictional creation. But Rivers was a real army doctor who treated several famous patients at his Craiglockhart clinic, notably war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. It is a measure of Barker's remarkable skill as a novelist that both characters - and all the others in a book crowded with humanity - are completely believable. The Ghost Road completes the examination of the Great War she began in Regeneration and continued in The Eye in the Door, and ties together many themes of the earlier two books - the link between concepts of masculinity and war, the meaning of class and gender, the ultimate source of personal identity - in a gripping, detailed, eventful story told with tenderness and wisdom. On its own The Ghost Road would be a wonderful novel. The trilogy represents a remarkable and original fictional achievement which sets Pat Barker head and shoulders above her contemporaries. (Kirkus UK)

About the Author
Pat Barker was born in 1943 and educated at LSE. She has published several novels including her highly acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy. The Eye in the Door was winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, winner of the 1995 Booker Prize for Fiction. Pat Barker is married and lives in Durham.