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The Eye in the Door (1993), a novel by British writer Pat Barker, is the second volume in her Regeneration trilogy, which examines the effects of shell shock (PTSD) on British soldiers during the First World War.The Eye in the Door focuses on the fictional Billy Prior, a minor character from the trilogy’s first volume, Regeneration; the real-life figures Siegfried Sassoon and Dr. William ...
Summary. 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 ...
21 de sept. de 1993 · A window on the world. The Eye In The Door by Pat Barker (280pp, Viking, £14.99) Jonathan Coe. Tue 21 Sep 1993 12.22 EDT. S implicity and directness have always been the hallmarks of Pat Barker's ...
The Eye in the Door Pat Barker. Dutton Books, $20.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-525-93808-8
1 de abr. de 1995 · PAT BARKER has earned a place in the first rank of contemporary British writers with such novels as Union Street, Regeneration (shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize and chosen by the New York Times as one of the four best novels of 1992), The Eye in the Door (winner of the 1993 Guardian fiction prize), and The Ghost Road (winner of the 1995 Booker Prize).
The Eye in the Door—indeed, the entire trilogy—looks at war through the lens of the destruction of young men’s psyches, and thereby makes a powerful anti-war statement. We see in great detail the symptoms and the toll of shell shock, and we are privy to psychotherapy sessions, dream analyses, and the occasional more invasive therapeutic ...
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