Pat Barker
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing, the basis for the major motion picture The Drowning, portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland.
Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom's spontaneous act saves the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of an upper-class family torn by World War I centers on an anguished sister whose beloved brother goes missing in action, in an epic tale that explores the experiences of the family members and the working-class people who support them.
Author
Series
Troy volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A feminist retelling of The Iliad. Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean; it does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins...
5) Life class
Author
Series
Life class novels (Pat Barker) volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A novel capturing the devastation and psychological trauma of the Great War on every level of British society focuses on a group of young art students, including Paul Tarrant, a Red Cross volunteer, who discovers that life, love, and art will never be the same.
6) Regeneration
Author
Series
Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 1
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Set in a British military hospital during WWI, this novel blends fact and fiction, drawing its two protagonists from the pages of history. The author of Union Street (made into the film Stanley and Iris) portrays over whelmed men who try to come to terms with their outrage of a futile war.
7) Regeneration
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors of battle. Dr. William Rivers, the hospital psychiatrist who hovers on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he attempts to 'cure' the incurable.