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The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
ISBN: 0452276721
ISBN-13: 9780452276727
Format: Paperback
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Summary
In the closing months of World War I, Dr. William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital, only to send them back to the trenches to be slaughtered. Among these men are Billy Pryor, an officer originally from the working class, who returns to the front with his friend, the poet Wilfrid Owen. Meanwhile, Rivers himself becomes ill with influenza during the epidemic and returns in memory to a South Pacific tribe he once studied, seeing connections between those days and the present time, with its senseless battles and meaningless, blind patriotism. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1995.
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"While Ms. Barker is meticulously true to both the military and personal aspects of her history, she is never constrained by her sources. REGENERATION (published here in 1991), THE EYE IN THE DOOR (1993) and now THE GHOST ROAD are too imaginatively free-ranging and immediate to seem quite 'historical novels,' too concerned with moral and sexual battles to seem quite 'war novels,' too striking as hybrids of fact and possibility, easy humor and passionate social argument to be classified as anything but the masterwork to date of a singular and ever-evolving novelist who has consistently made up her own rules." -- Claudia Roth Pierpont
-- New York Times Book Review
"THE GHOST ROAD is a startlingly good novel in its own right. 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, skillfully assembled, tender, horrifying, and funny, it lives on in the imagination, like the war it so imaginatively and so intelligently explores." -- Peter Parker
-- Times Literary Supplement
"Barker specializes in the sharp detail, the telling observation, the scene so convincing we can't pull back." -- David Gates
-- Newsweek
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Plume
Published date: 1996
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 1
Publisher's Notes
The Ghost Road is the shattering conclusion of Pat barker's brilliant World War I trilogy. Set in the final months of the war, The Ghost Road focuses on Dr. William Rovers, the compassionate psychiatrist of Regeneration and Lt. Billy Prior, last seen as a domestic intelligence agent in The Eye in the Door. "A triumph of imagination".--Publisher's Weekly.
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New York: Plume, 1996 Pages clean, tight, and tanned, name of a previous owner on the first page, cover has scuffed edges and creased corners. Trade Paperback Very Good - ( more information) Offered by Front Porch Books (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1996. Pages clean and tight. First page clipped. Cover clean with very slight scratching and very little wear around edges.. 5th Printing. Soft Cover - Not Xlibrary. Very Good/No Dj- Not Large Print. 9 Oz. Fiction. ( more information) Offered by FAB BOOKS (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Plume, 1996, 1996. Paperback. VG. 278pp. Yellowing interior, sticker back.. Paperback. VG. ( more information) Offered by Priceless Books (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1996 USED - Standard. Book has only minor reading wear; binding is square and tight; text is clean and unmarked. BOOKSMART offers free domestic shipping (media mail) on orders of three or more books. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Booksmart (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Plume Books. 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. ( more information) Offered by Second Chance Books (United States)
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Plume, 1993. Pages unmarked. Glossy covers moderately edgeworn. Binding square & firm.. ISBN: 0452276721. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. GREAT BRITAIN FICTION HISTORICAL WAR. ( more information) Offered by Books Do Furnish A Room (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Plume, 1996. vg+ trade size soft cover clean tight and square no names or marks. 277pp vg+/--. ISBN: 0452276721. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. GREAT BRITAIN FICTION HISTORICAL WAR, WWI,. ( more information) Offered by Dustjacket Books and Treasures (Canada)
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Plume, 1996 USED - Standard. Book has only minor reading wear; binding is square and tight; text is clean and unmarked. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. ( more information) Offered by Booksmart (United States)
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Dutton/Plume, 1996. 277 pp. PO's name to inside front cover, faint edgewear, else fine. From Publishers Weekly -- "The Booker Prize recently awarded to Barker for this book, the culmination of her astonishing WWI trilogy that began with Regeneration and The Eye in the Door, persuaded Dutton to move publication ahead by eight months, which is good news for American readers. The present book can be read without reference to the others, but all are mutually enriching. They revolve around William Rivers, a psychologist who pioneered the treatment of shell shock, and some of his patients, who include such real-life figures as poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, as well as the fictional Lieutenant Billy Prior, a bisexual whose life as an officer is complicated by his working-class origins. The questions the trilogy addresses are profound ones like the nature of sanity, the politics of class, war and sex, and the struggle to maintain humanity in the face of meaningless slaughter. In The Ghost Road, the war is nearing its end, which renders the continuing horrors of trench warfare ever more futile. Prior is sent back to the front after Rivers's treatment, enjoys a strange idyllic interlude in a ruined village, rescues a horribly wounded fellow officer and then faces the stupidest massacre of all. The whole trilogy, which in its entirety is only equivalent in length to one blockbuster serial-killer frenzy, is a triumph of an imagination at once poetic and practical.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. ( more information) Offered by Second Story Books (United States)
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NY: Penguin Books, 1996. 1st printing Trade paperback.. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by John Marston's Book Shop (United States)
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New York: Plume Books. NF. 1995. Softcover. ISBN: 0452276721. New & unread. Very light scuff. ; 8vo; Winnier of the 1995 Booker Prize.. ( more information) Offered by Crazy Horse Books (United States)
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New York: Dutton/Plume, 1996. Booker Prize 1995 winner. An as new copy.. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Fine. ( more information) Offered by TransAtlantic Books (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1996. GREAT BRITAIN FICTION HISTORICAL WAR. ISBN: 0452276721. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. GREAT BRITAIN FICTION HISTORICAL WAR. ( more information) Offered by Pinacle Books (United States)
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