An edition of The ghost road (1995)

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An edition of The ghost road (1995)

The ghost road

  • 4.00 ·
  • 5 Ratings
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  • 8 Have read

1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation ... THE GHOST ROAD is the Booker Prize-winning account of the devastating final months of the First World War.

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Publisher
Charnwood
Language
English
Pages
265

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2014, Charnwood
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Ghost Road
2012, Penguin Books, Limited
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2010, Penguin Books, Limited
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2009, Hodder Education Group
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Ghost Road
2008, Penguin Books, Limited
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The ghost road
1997, Paragon
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The Ghost Road
July 4, 1996, Penguin Books Ltd
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Ghost Road
1996, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
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Ghost Road, the
September 1996, Penguin U S A
in Spanish
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The ghost road
1996, Plume/Penguin
in English - 1st Plume print.
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The ghost road
1996, Dutton
in English
Cover of: The ghost road.
Cover of: The ghost road
The ghost road
1996, Plume
in English
Cover of: The ghost road
The ghost road
1995, Dutton
in English
Cover of: The ghost road
The ghost road
1995, Viking
in English
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The ghost road
1995, Compass Press
in English
Cover of: The ghost road
The ghost road
1995, Viking
in English
Cover of: The ghost road
The ghost road
1995, Dutton, Plume
in English
Cover of: The ghost road
The ghost road
1995, Penguin Books

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Leicester

Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Viking, 1995.

Booker Prize 1995

Series
The regeneration trilogy -- 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.914

The Physical Object

Pagination
265 pages
Number of pages
265

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28708655M
Internet Archive
ghostroad0000bark_k3c9
ISBN 10
1444820885
ISBN 13
9781444820881
OCLC/WorldCat
883463561

Work Description

From Amazon.com:

The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.

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.

Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, The Ghost Road both encapsulates history and transcends it. It is a modern masterpiece

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