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Another World
Penguin
Paperback
: 01 Jul 1999
£8.99
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Synopsis
At 101, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by ghosts of the trenches and the horrors surrounding his brother's death. But in Nick's family home the dark pressures of the past also encroach on the present. As he and his wife Fran try to unite their uneasy family of step- and half-siblings, the discovery of a sinister Victorian drawing reveals the murderous history of their house and casts a violent shadow over their lives ...
Reviews
Customer Review: 11 September 2002
Reviewer: A reader from Bristol
Pat Barker has again produced a superb piece of literature. Following her harrowing, moving and utterly brilliant Regeneration trilogy, Barker returns with this novel of a family and their demons. Weaving together the modern dysfunctional family and the horrors of the First World War, Barkers writing remains tight, precise and a joy to read. Reading this book late at night is an experience few readers will forget. Another worthy novel from the Booker Prize-winner and well worth a sleepless night!
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Customer Review: 04 July 2002Critic Review:
'Gripping in the best, most exquisite sense of the word - as if something wicked were holding you in its clutches'
Mail on Sunday
'Brilliant....without question the best novel I have read this year....once again, World War I extends its dark shadows across Pat Barker's extraordinary writing'
Daily Mail
'Another World demonstrates the extraordinary immediacy and vigour of expression we have come to expect from Barker - brilliant touches of observation, an unfailing dialogue, a talent for imagery that is darting and brief but wonderfully apt....this is a novel that doesn't allow you to miss a sentence'
The New York Times Book Review
'Heart-breaking......quite brilliant....this is a book written in blood, scrupulous, intricate and overwhelming'
Evening Standard
'Utterly compelling.....she is a novelist who probes deep, revealing what people prefer to keep hidden'
Scotsman
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780140258981
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 288
Published : 01 Jul 1999
Publisher : Penguin
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