A trilogy of novels set during World War I which mingle real and fictional characters. "The Ghost Road" won the 1995 Booker Prize.
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“Paul McGann brings a nice detachment to the central character, Billy Prior, and has plenty of detail left over for the brilliant vignettes”
Irish Times 3/5/97
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Pat Barker's 'Regeneration Trilogy', – ' Regeneration, The Eye In The Door' and ' The Ghost Road' – interweaving fact and fiction, characters historical and imagined, wry humour and harrowing observation, tells not so much the familiar story of the horror of the trenches, but rather of the psychological damage the Great War inflicted not only on the nation's doomed youth but on that entire generation which also served.
The trilogy has won Pat Barker the 1993 'Guardian Fiction Prize', the 1995 Booker Prize and acclaim as the Booksellers' Association Author of the Year.
Paul McGann, the star of 'The Monocled Mutineer, Withnail and I' and 'The Hanging Gale', and a reader of rare nuance and subtlety, gives a quietly understated performance in keeping with Barker's literary style.
Contains 'Regeneration, The Eye in the Door' and 'The Ghost Road'
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I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. Read the first page
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Pat Barker has a way of bringing her characters to life that I have rarely encountered before. This is a wonderful trilogy that highlights the true impact of WW1 and the conditions experienced there on the psyche. It creates a very strong vision of what it must have been like for ordinary men to find themselves taken away from their homes and placed in a world of mud and death and incessant noise. It also explores the relationship between men, both sexual and non-sexual and provides a fascinating insight into the development of psychology that took place during WW1. I have read Birdsong, but still find myself reaching for the Regeneration trilogy time and time again. The Eye in the Door is the weakest of the three novels, but this is more than compensated for by the wonderful Ghost Road. These novels are made more poignant by the fact that many of the characters existed in real life, and the views of war portrayed by Pat Barker can be substantiated and expanded by reading their poetry, and that of other war poets
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I had to read the first book in the trilogy - "Regeneration" for my A Levels and when i saw the book and read the blurb i immediately thought "how boring is this going to be?" Yet when i eventually forced myself to start reading it, i was gripped by the end of the first chapter and within a week i'd bought and read the rest of the trilogy too! Contrary to other reviewers, my favourite book was The Eye in The Door, which contains a lot more politics and is also moving and very graphic with sexual imagery and other topics. Actually, the other two books were pretty moving and graphic too so be wary if you're a bit prudish! The first book in the trilogy concentrates on the poet Seigrfried Sassoon, his friendship with another poet Wilfrid Owen and a fictional officer called Billy Prior, who are all convalescing in hospital after suffereing shellshock, with the aid of the doctor, Rivers. The second concentrates more on Billy Prior, with some references back to Sassoon and Owen and the third is mostly about Prior and their doctor in the hospital, the real Dr W H Rivers. All three books contain connotations about homosexuality(something that was then illegal) and also the usual wartime book themes about the brutality and pointlessness of war. Don't dismiss them (as i almost did) as historical tat, they are all three, fantastic novels that bring out emotions and make you fully realise the futility of war and the complexity of psyhcology. Pure, Grade A Excellence!
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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I too read the book over a year ago and I still think about it a lot. I've just visited Flanders - both Belgium and France and my interest in the First World War stemmed from reading this trilogy.I think a large part of my enjoyment was because many of the characters actually existed. The film 'Regeneration' is good too. Anybody interested in WW1 and has enjoyed 'Birdsong' and also the work of the poets Sassoon and Owen will thoroughly enjoy this book.
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a good story well told
read these back to back. loved the flow of the words and the decriptions were vivid, brought the real horror of war to life. Excellent.
Published 20 days ago by LizM
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assignment reading
received on time actually before time and in very good condition i will be keeping this for my book collection as it was a good read suprisingly
Published 2 months ago by Ms. Amanda P. Blondel
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Fascinating
I read this trilogy out of order as I first came across the second book "The Eye in the Door" in the library. I was hooked and had to get my hands on the other two. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Ms A. Breen
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The Regeneration Trilogy
The book took a little getting into. I read it as part of a book club list. It wasn't possibly something I would have normally bought. Read more
Published 18 months ago by book club reader28
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Pat Barker - Regeneration Triology
Anyone having to or wanting to read one of this set should read all 3. This is a fascinating story based on real characters and real events plus the beginings of understanding... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2011 by R T
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disturbing but rewarding
The trilogy covers stories of some of the men who were hospitalised during World War 1 suffering from the traumas of warfare. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2010 by margaret
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casualties of war
When it comes to literature on war and what it does to man, few novels outdo Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2007 by Didier
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You have to read it!
I first read Regeneration when i was lent it at school to read for my A-Levels, it was the first war literature i had ever read and i wasn't expecting to enjoy it! Read more
Published on 25 April 2006 by Liz
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Fabulous
As a student studying war literature, i've had to wade through a fair bit, but this trilogy was a delight. Read more
Published on 4 May 2003 by "snowyowlofdoom"
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A worthy prizewinner!
The fact that "The Ghost Road" won the Booker prize actually put me off reading this book for years! I thought that it would be unreadable, elitist tosh! Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2001
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