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Regeneration
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- Author
- Pat Barker
- Narrator
- Simon Russell Beale
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 26 August 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls
Recommended by Richard Osman
Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy - a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.
'Brilliant, intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian
'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph
© Pat Barker 1991 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Details
- Author
- Pat Barker
- Narrator
- Simon Russell Beale
- Duration
- 8 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 August 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241994160
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Historical fiction, First World War fiction, Narrative theme: war and conflict, Narrative theme: health and illness
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsRecommended by Richard OsmanRegeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy - a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World WarCraiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.'Brilliant, intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph© Pat Barker 1991 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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