![]() ![]() You can reserve copies of these books online at South Dublin Libraries’ catalogue here. The writer gives us a good picture of what life and society was like in Britain and at the front during the conflict, mainly through the experiences of Prior. The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barkers sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. Rivers comes across as empathetic towards his patients, contrasting with the attitudes and treatment of other medical staff at the time though it should be remembered that the soldiers involved were officers I wonder how private men suffering from war trauma fared. Available in National Library (Singapore). In the later section “The Ghost Road” we learn of his experiences on an Anthropological expedition to the Torres straits twenty years before. Rivers is based on a pioneering psychiatrist and anthropologist of the same name. The opening novel is set in Craiglockhart Hospital which served as a psychiatric facility for war casualties in reality, and another of the principal characters, W.H.R. 1 It is the first of three novels in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication. Several of the characters are based on historical figures such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, famous war-poets but the series centers on Billy Prior, a fictional working class officer. Regeneration is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. These three inter-related historical novels are set during the First World War and deal mainly with the treatment of soldiers suffering from the effect of shell shock. ![]()
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