Life Class

Barker, Pat

ISBN 10: 0241142970 / ISBN 13: 9780241142974

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life Class
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241142970
• ISBN 13: 9780241142974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1747109732.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 40115769
• Signed: 5/13/2025 4:15:32 AM
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Synopsis

Life Class is the first novel in Pat Barker's Life Class Trilogy - a powerful and unforgettable story of art and war Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely? 'Triumphant, shattering, inspiring' The Times 'Barker writes as brilliantly as ever . . . with great tenderness and insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down'Independent on Sunday 'Vigorous, masterly, gripping' Penelope Lively, Independent 'Extraordinarily powerful' Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

Pat Barker is the author of the highly acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize; and The Ghost Road, winner of the Booker Prize; as well as seven other novels, most recently Double Vision. She lives in England.