TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Pat
TI  - The ghost road
T2  - The regeneration trilogy
SN  - 9780142180600 (paperback)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Plume
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Fiction
N1  - "Winner of the Booker Prize" -- Cover
N2  - "The Ghost Road" is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war
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