Pat Barker, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-20905-6
The quaint English village of Barker's 10th novel is a world away from the wars—in Bosnia, Afghanistan and elsewhere—that have scarred its main characters, but the specter of violence still looms. Kate Frobisher, a sculptor working
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Pat Barker, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-52435-3
Set initially in 1914 before the start of WWI, Barker’s first novel since 2004’s Double Vision tells the story of two students at London’s Slade School of Fine Art, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke, along with that of Kit Neville, a...
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Pat Barker, Author Plume Books $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-452-27272-9
From the author of Regeneration comes the story of British society's struggles during WWI. (Apr.)
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Pat Barker, Author Dutton Books $20.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-93808-8
British writer Barker's ability to invest what appears to be a simple narrative with many levels of meaning and to convey a harrowing story in spare, uncluttered prose was amply demonstrated in her acclaimed previous novel, Regeneration . This...
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Pat Barker, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-94191-0
The Booker Prize recently awarded to Barker for this book, the culmination of her astonishing WWI trilogy that began with Regeneration and The Eye in the Door, persuaded Dutton to move publication ahead by eight months, which is good news for...
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Pat Barker, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (464p) ISBN 978-0-374-10525-9
The author of the award-winning Regeneration trilogy has changed publishers and time frames for her newest book, but the result is as spellbinding as ever: thoughtful, acutely observed and profoundly moving. Geordie, a WWI veteran, is over 100, but...
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Pat Barker, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (215p) ISBN 978-0-374-18115-4
Britain's Barker is best known here for her magnificent Regeneration Trilogy, based on post-World War I cases of shell shock; her new novel, set in a dour Northumbrian city, carries some of the same sense of dread discovery into contemporary...
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Pat Barker. Doubleday, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-52436-0
Fans of Barker’s Regeneration trilogy know she has a gift for combining real and imagined characters, for making you see the horrors of war, and for knowing that people don’t stop having sex or being themselves because there’s a war on. This story,...
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Pat Barker. Doubleday, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-53772-8
Barker concludes a trilogy that began with three students at the Slade School of Fine Art in the run-up to World War I (Life Class), in this third volume, which takes the former classmates to London during the Blitz in 1940. Elinor Brooke and Paul...
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Pat Barker. Doubleday, $27.95 (304p) ISBN SBN 978-0-385-54669-0
In Barker’s masterly continuation of her fiercely feminist take on Homer’s Iliad (after The Silence of the Girls), the Greeks drag their wooden horse into Troy and achieve victory after a 10-year siege, but a freak storm prevents their ships from...
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Tonya Bolden, Author, Pat Barker, Author, Ansel Pitcairin, Illustrator Dutton Books $18.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-47043-4
A number of nonfiction texts give voice to important historical events and figures. Visually captivating and rich in detail, Portraits of African-American Heroes by Tonya Bolden, illus. by Ansel Pitcairn, traces the lives and achievements of 10...
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Pat Barker. Doubleday, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-54421-4
Barker, author of the Booker-winning The Ghost Road, speculates about the fate of the women taken captive during the Trojan War, as related in Homer’s Iliad. Briseis, queen of the small country of Lyrnessus, was captured by the Greek forces and...
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Pat Barker. Doubleday, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-54911-0
Barker (The Silence of the Girls) recounts the aftermath of the Trojan War in this tense third entry in her Women of Troy series. With the city in ruins, victorious King Agamemnon and his Greek army sail home to Mycenae. On the ship, King Priam’s...
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