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Life Class
By Barker, Pat
Life Class
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Regeneration Trilogy" comes an acknowledged masterpiece of modern fiction. "Life Class" is an exceptional new novel of artists and lovers caught in the maelstrom of the Great War.
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Authors:
Barker, Pat
Copyright:
2007
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9780307387806
ISBN10:
0307387801
Page Count:
320
Dimensions:
5.44x0.66x7.94
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Strand Notes
In this superb new novel, Pat Barker returns to her most renowned subject: the devastation and psychic damage wrought by WWI on all levels of British society. In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio fora life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him. Author of, among others, The Ghost Road (winner of the Booker Prize).
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In the spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but watches from afar when a well-known painter catches her eye. After World War I begins, Paul tends to the dying soldiers from the front line as a Belgian Red Cross volunteer, but the longer he remains, the greater the distance between him and home becomes. By the time he returns, Paul must confront not only the overwhelming, perhaps impossible challenge of how to express all that he has seen and experienced, but also the fact that life, and love, will never be the same for him again.
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