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Pat Barker and the Mediation of Social Reality, Student Edition

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Physical Description xvi, p. Subjects Barker, Pat, -- Criticism and interpretation.

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Contents Social representation and the question of reality Caging or community? The man who wasn't there Heroic masculinity and the enemy within: The regeneration trilogy The family, constructed reality and collective traumatic memory: Another world "I believed my own story": Double vision The "fear of being irrelevant" in a time of war: Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.

View online Borrow Buy Freely available Show 0 more links None of your libraries hold this item. Found at these bookshops Searching - please wait We were unable to find this edition in any bookshop we are able to search. These online bookshops told us they have this item: Double vision by Pat Barker Book 43 editions published between and in 5 languages and held by 1, WorldCat member libraries worldwide Profoundly affected by the events of September 11th and its aftermath, two British journalists return to England to face different fates, in a study of the effects of violence on those who come in contact with it.

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London, the Blitz, Autumn As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul Tarrant works as an air-raide warden. Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, they now find themselves caught in another war, this time at home. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three reach out for quick consolation.


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And into their midst comes the spirit medium Bertha Mason, grotesque and unforgettable, whose ability to make contact with the deceased finds vastly increased demands as death rains down from the skies. Old loves and obsessions resurface until Elinor is brought face to face with an almost impossible choice.

Writing about the Second World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city of London into electrifying life in her most powerful novel since the Regeneration trilogy" Union Street by Pat Barker Book 86 editions published between and in 12 languages and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Vivid, bawdy and bitter' The Times , Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world.

There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married, and already pregnant; Old Alice, welcoming her impending death; Muriel helplessly watching the decline of her stoical husband.

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And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris. The silence of the girls: Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman--Helen.


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In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles's concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army. Blow your house down by Pat Barker Book 38 editions published between and in 4 languages and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide "A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out prostitutes.

The face of his latest victim stares out from every newspaper and billboard, haunting the women who walk the streets.

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But life and work go on. Brenda, with three children, can't afford to give up while Audrey, now in her forties, desperately goes on 'working the cars'. And then, when another women is savagely murdered, Jean, her lover, takes desperate measures. The century's daughter by Pat Barker Book 19 editions published between and in 4 languages and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Liza was born on the stroke of midnight as the 20th century began.

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Growing up during the First World War she marries Frank an unemployed steel worker who is also a mystic and faith healer. Her real trial of strength is encountered as she rears her children through the Depression and the Second World War. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him.

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The man who wasn't there by Pat Barker Book 33 editions published between and in 4 languages and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Twelve-year-old Colin Harper weaves together movies and real life in an attempt to create an understanding of what his father was like and what it means to be a man. The Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker Book 41 editions published between and in 3 languages and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide The eye in the door: Drawing of the history of the Pemberton Billing libel trial in which all Britain's military troubles were laid at the door of the British homosexuals, themes of persecution and prejudice are explored alongside questions of class and identity.

Regeneration by Pat Barker Recording 35 editions published between and in 3 languages and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Behind the massive yellow-grey facade of Craiglockhart War Hospital, Dr. William Rivers attempts to restore the sanity of officers driven out of their minds by their experiences in action in the First World War.