The ghost road - Hardcover

BARKER, Pat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670854891 ISBN 13: 9780670854899

Publisher: Viking, 1995

Synopsis

Based on a mix of real and imagined characters and events, this book concentrates on Sarah, a young woman working in a munitions factory, and on Wilfred Owen. The position of women has been a sub-theme throughout the books and here it moves to the forefront. The 1995 Booker Prize winner.

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Barker's novels include "Another World", "Border Crossing" and "Noonday". She is also the author of the highly acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy, comprising "Regeneration", which has been made into a film starring Jonathan Pryce and James Wilby, "The Eye in the Door", winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, and "The Ghost Road", winner of the 1996 Booker Prize. She lives in England.

From AudioFile:

When Billy Prior returns to France for the fourth time in September of 1918, it's like coming home. He does so against everyone's advice, but when he watches the sun rise slowly after the Battle of Joncourt, he realizes why he couldn't have stayed back. And mysteriously, so do we. Peter Firth's reading captures perfectly Barker's tragic mix of pity and apotheosis. An accomplished British actor, Firth is at once the cynical, but savvy, Prior, the stammering Professor Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), soft-spoken Dr. Rivers, all with transparent ease. His unerring sense of character and tone recreates the bitter irony of that last push in 1918 when so many died so needlessly. For Barker, these last dead, though they sour the trumpet of victory, are war's only winners. At the end Firth's silence becomes eloquent. P.E.F. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0670854891
• ISBN 13: 9780670854899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288