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Double Vision

by Pat Barker

ISBN: 0374209057
ISBN-13: 9780374209056
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Pat Barker sets her ninth novel in a post-9/11 world in which two men, a writer and a photographer, return to England from New York, devastated by their experiences. Ben, the writer, is later killed covering the war in Afghanistan; Stephen divorces his unfaithful wife, quits his job, and retires to the countryside in search of solitude in which to write a book. But then Ben's widow enters his life.

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"[A] wholly engrossing book....[W]ithin the arc of Barker's rich creative career,... discordance may be the necessary byproduct of the originality, the innovation of a restlessly ambitious new work. Where the melodies of the novel mesh, they display a writer at the height of her powers. The few times they clash are almost more beautiful: in them, you can hear the even more impressive, because rarer, sound of an artist growing."

-- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 0.88 pounds
Pages: 208

Publisher's Notes

Profoundly affected by the events of September 11th and its aftermath, two British journalists return to England--Stephen Sharkey to divorce and quitting his job, and photographer Ben Frobisher to follow the war on terror to Afghanistan and death on the battlefield--in a gripping study of the effects of violence on those who come in contact with it.

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