REGENERATION

by Barker, Pat

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1993 . Barker, Pat. REGENERATION. NY: Penguin Books, c1993. 20th printing. 250pp. 8vo. Near fine trade paperback w/ minor rubbing on spine, remainder mark on lower edge of textblock $7.00

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The first novel in Barker's World War I trilogy. Siegfried Sassoon, a homosexual and a poet, protests the war with a statement in a London newspaper and, rather than being court-martialed, is sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital in the care of a psychiatrist, William Rivers, who specializes in shell-shock. His treatment of Sassoon and the other patients at the hospital--among them poet Wilfred Owen--leads him to question the rationale for his work: to send these men back to the front. The novel is an eloquent protest of the madness of war.