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The Ghost Road
The Ghost Road | Pat Barker
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The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war. Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, The Ghost Road both encapsulates history and transcends it. It is a modern masterpiece
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Currey
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#readingoceania2024 #solomonislands A bit of a cheat as this is a book that largely takes place in the UK and the WWI trenches in France. However, the reminiscences of an anthropological journey to the Solomon Islands gives the book a broader view of humanity‘s relationship to death. Excellent book.

Librarybelle That works! Wonderful! 2h
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bliophile
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I struggled with this book. I found part 3 was the best part of the novel, but i feel the story had dragged on a little bit. This cpuld be because i was listening to it as an audio, and i may revist the trilogy again at a later date. 🌟🌟🌟

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Ellen_C
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Excellent end to a superior trilogy on WWI. Billy Prior prepares to return to the front while Dr. Rivers confronts his own repressed or forgotten memories. https://cannonballread.com/2018/10/world-war-i-novels-never-end-happily/

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Kkhalifeh
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My birthday treat to myself - 3 straight hours of uninterrupted reading! Husband is cooking for tonight's party and I just get to lay here and read 🎉😊

TrishB Sounds fab 😀 8y
Suet624 💕💕💕 8y
Dragon Happy birthday 🎉 8y
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