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 The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
 The Ghost Road - Pat Barker ... final book in Pat Barker's 'Regeneration Trilogy'.Newest Review: ... the first two books, you would get the impression that the war is little more than a minor inconvenience for most people. In ... more ... The Ghost Road, the true horrors finally start to be discussed: wounds are horrific, deaths are painful and drawn out and lives are shattered in an instant. And what a difference it makes! After two emotionally sterile books, there is finally a sense of the misery, suffering and tragic waste of lives caused by the war. People get hurt, both emotionally and physically and we finally see the true cost of the war on individuals and their families. This is precisely the sort of heart-rending plot developments an anti-war...more |
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The Ghost Road - Pat Barker: Save the best for Last (1071 words)
by - written on 28/07/09 (Very useful, 130 readings)
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It's been a long, sometime tortuous trip through the Regeneration Trilogy. I will say this, though: it's got better as it goes along. Whether this is because I have got more into the books, or whether each genuinely improves on the last, I don't know. The third and final book - The Ghost Road - is set towards the end of World War One in the autumn of 1918. Once again, the two key characters are Billy Prior (due to return to action in France following a period of illness) and W. H. Rivers, the psychologist who treated him during his breakdown. The Ghost Road takes in all sorts of elements: it examines attitudes to sex, class, war and the mind's ... Read the complete review
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