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Regeneration

Regeneration, Book 1

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Regeneration

Written by: Pat Barker
Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
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The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from the Women's Prize shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls.

Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy - a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War.

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers' job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds, the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.

©1991 Pat Barker (P)2021 Penguin Audio 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction War Military
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Excellent in all respects

The book itself is suberb -- richly evocative, cubist in its narrative form, impeccably situated in its time period both in literary allusion and historical reference, and full of psychological and philosophical depth.

The reading is also superb -- very clearly enunciated and easy to follow. One of the best talking books I have heard. I look forward to volumes 2 and 3 in the Trilogy.

I taught this book at the university level many years ago and was delighted to find it on the Audible library.

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