The Eye In The Door

Author: Pat Barker

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Price : 29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780141030944
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.196
Publication date : 01 May 2008
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Pat Barker
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Pages : 288
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London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be. "The Eye in the Door" is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it. This is the second book in the "Regeneration" trilogy.

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Gripping, moving, beautifully constrcted and profoundly intelligent Independent on Sunday