The Eye in the Door
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World War One's sexual and political dissenters are given voice in the winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize
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.
The second book in the Regeneration trilogy
Author: Pat Barker
Format: Paperback, 320 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 220 g
Published: 2008, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
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World War One's sexual and political dissenters are given voice in the winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize
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.
The second book in the Regeneration trilogy
The Eye in the Door