The ghost road
Author:
NoveList Series:
Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 3.
Series:
Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 3
Publisher:
Dutton
Publication Date:
[1995]
Language:
English
Description
Central to this novel are two men divided by class and experience, but sharing a mutual respect and empathy. One is Lieutenant Billy Prior, cured of shell shock by famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, and determined to return to the front in France even as the war enters its final ferocious phase in the late summer of 1918. The other is Dr. Rivers himself, consumed by the medical challenge and moral dilemma of restoring men to health so that they can be sent back to the battlefields and almost certain death.
Billy Prior is a working-class man on the rise, a "temporary gentleman," who inhabits a sexual, social, and moral no-man's-land. His sexual encounters with both women and men are tinged with a cynical fatalism that the war has engendered. Still, he is eager to join a fellow Craiglockhart "graduate," the poet Wilfred Owen, in France in time to participate in the great English offensive, the "one last push" intended to redeem all the shining heroism and senseless slaughter that has gone before.
Billy Prior is a working-class man on the rise, a "temporary gentleman," who inhabits a sexual, social, and moral no-man's-land. His sexual encounters with both women and men are tinged with a cynical fatalism that the war has engendered. Still, he is eager to join a fellow Craiglockhart "graduate," the poet Wilfred Owen, in France in time to participate in the great English offensive, the "one last push" intended to redeem all the shining heroism and senseless slaughter that has gone before.
Subjects
Subjects
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
Owen, Wilfred
Owen, Wilfred, -- 1893-1918 -- Fiction
Poets, English
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Fiction
Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Rivers, W. H. R
Rivers, W. H. R. -- (William Halse Rivers), -- 1864-1922 -- Fiction
War fiction
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Owen, Wilfred
Owen, Wilfred, -- 1893-1918 -- Fiction
Poets, English
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Fiction
Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Rivers, W. H. R
Rivers, W. H. R. -- (William Halse Rivers), -- 1864-1922 -- Fiction
War fiction
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Fiction
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9780525941910
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Last Grouping Update | 2025-01-07 12:30:56PM |
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Historical fiction
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Fiction
Psychiatrists -- Great Britain -- Fiction
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Fiction
Psychiatrists -- Great Britain -- Fiction
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War fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Fiction
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World War, 1914-1918
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