Regeneration
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Edition: PaperbackAudio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
ISBN: 0141030933
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
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Book Review: A first-rate thought-provoking look at men and war
Summary: 5 Stars
I first ran across Pat Barker when I read her newer book, Life Class, also a study of war, and an equally excellent book. Regeneration did not disappoint me. It is simply first-rate writing, about what war does to men, how it can wear them down, kill them on the inside, even when their bodies may remain whole. Barker's use of real people in fictional form makes Regeneration even more meaningful to the serious student of human nature and the awful effects of the violent and terrifying environment that is war, whether it's happening in 1917, 1950, 1970 or 2009. The poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, tragic figures I studied in college more than forty years ago, become real flesh and tortured idealistic people in Barker's hands. The central figure, Dr William Rivers, comes equally alive several decades after his death, as he contemplates the horrors of prolonged exposure to combat and trench warfare as well as the father-son relationship. Barker looks unflinchingly at the way war changes people and lives, with her finely wrought scenes of damanged men and women seeking solace and attempting furtive sexual congress in dark doorways and against moss-covered tombstones in country churchyards. It is not often that a woman writer gets inside men's heads and portrays them so accurately. I cannot recommend this book highly enough and will definitely seek out and read the other two books from the Regeneration trilogy. - Tim Bazzett, author of SOLDIER BOY and LOVE, WAR & POLIO
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