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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. The present book can be read without reference to the others, but all are mutually enriching. Though it would seem almost impossible to look at that appalling conflict with a fresh eye, Barker has succeeded in ways that define the novelist's art: by close observation as well as by deployment of a broad and painfully compassionate vision, all rendered in prose whose very simplicity speaks volumes. 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 publicatio

The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. 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. 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. It is a modern masterpiece. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. 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. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war.Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blen

"The Ghost Road is the Booker Winner which revisits the hell, horror and heartbreaks of the Great War" according to C. M Mills. The Ghost Road is the final volume in the trilogy on World War I by eminent Yorkshire novelist Pat Barker. The other two volumes in the superb series are "Regeneration" and "The Eye in the Door." Ghosts inhabit the 275 pages of this searingly heartbreaking book. Ghosts of soldiers killed in rat and water infested French trenches. Ghosts abounding in Melanesia tribal grounds visited long ago by Dr. William Rivers. Rivers is a doctor working with the shattered souls and bodies of those wounded in Western Front fighting. Barker i. "Oddly satisfying for a book about death" according to ScrawnyPunk. The Ghost Road is an interesting book that intersperses the sacred (Melanesian death rites) with the profane (graphic depictions of risky sexual behavior) in an attempt to reconcile man's actions with the inevitability of death. The story itself is a split narrative: the psychoanalyst William Rivers treats men returning from the front during World War I and officer Billy Prior details his military and sexual actions leading up to his final battle in France. Rivers' narrative is further split between his real-time attendance to. Two Stars It's overrated

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