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The latest winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, this final volume completes a trilogy that includes Regeneration (1992) and The Eye in the Door (1994). Displaying the remarkable virtuosity that has won her a good deal of praise, Barker further embellishes upon history, shepherding readers even more deeply into the psyches of her vividly rendered characters. Poet Wilfred Owen reappears, as does psychologist William Rivers and his invalid sister, Katherine, who as a child was befriended by Lewis Carroll. Here, Rivers becomes ill and is haunted by memories of the headhunters he lived with and studied in Melanesia. But it is Barker's riveting and complex portrait of Billy Prior that delivers the message of the pathos and horrors of war. When Prior returns to the trenches after recovering from shell shock, he describes in diary form the final battles of World War I. Restrained yet powerfully expressive, Barker writes at full tilt, with compelling humanity. Alice Joyce
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An extraordinary tour de force. I'm convinced that the trilogy will win recognition as one of the few real masterpieces of late 20th-century British fiction (Jonathan Coe )
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Although "Regeneration" is my favorite of Pat Barker's World War I trilogy, I thought "The Ghost Road" was a brilliant and tragic ending. The novel takes us to the final days of World War I, where we witness the tragic fate of Billy Prior, the working-class anti-hero of the trilogy. Interspersed with his experiences in France we also join the psychiatrist, Dr. Rivers. Rivers deals with his unpleasant duty of preparing men to return to battle as he remembers his anthropological work in the Melanesian islands, amongst the members of a culture that was slowly dying out.
Barker's restrained style is extremely moving -- far more so than the florid prose of Sebastian Faulks' World War I novel "Birdsong." Every time I've read this novel, I've been moved to tears.
P.S. The reader from South Africa who was so incensed at Ms. Barker's "factual inaccuracies" might want to check again: There were indeed air raids over England in World War I -- they were carried out by the infamous Zeppelins! Also, Dr. Rivers was living amongst the head-hunters of Melanesia in the Pacific (probably Borneo or thereabouts) NOT Africa.
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Please do not read The Ghost Road before reading Regeneration and The Eye in the Door (the order intended by the author). As brilliant as The Ghost Road is, its message will hit you harder if you have read the other books first and anticipated what Pat Barker's final vision of humanity would be.
Without revealing any spoilers, The Ghost Road is the most nuanced novel about war that I've ever read. Most war-related books take one of two basic themes: Either war is too awful to be tolerated and needs to be abolished . . . or human nobility is expressed within war, but war itself is an evil event with people being destroyed by incompetent leaders. You'll find a different message here, one implied by a combination of observations about a tribe of head hunters and by the behavior of Billy Prior, one of the primary characters in the three books. I leave it to you to find out what this nuanced message is . . . but I believe it will probably surprise and enlighten you.
By narrowing down the focus onto just two of the continuing characters of the trilogy, Dr. William Rivers and Lieutenant Billy Prior, The Ghost Road has an intensity and power that I didn't observe in the prior two books. Clearly, The Ghost Road is a step above those excellent novels.
I am often left wondering why books that win prestigious prizes (like the 1995 Booker Prize . . . awarded to The Ghost Road) did so. I have no doubt that this award was well earned.
Life can be an ironic event, punctuated by moments of sublime joy. I have seldom read a novel that captured those perspectives as well as The Ghost Road does.
Brava, Ms. Barker!
Without revealing any spoilers, The Ghost Road is the most nuanced novel about war that I've ever read. Most war-related books take one of two basic themes: Either war is too awful to be tolerated and needs to be abolished . . . or human nobility is expressed within war, but war itself is an evil event with people being destroyed by incompetent leaders. You'll find a different message here, one implied by a combination of observations about a tribe of head hunters and by the behavior of Billy Prior, one of the primary characters in the three books. I leave it to you to find out what this nuanced message is . . . but I believe it will probably surprise and enlighten you.
By narrowing down the focus onto just two of the continuing characters of the trilogy, Dr. William Rivers and Lieutenant Billy Prior, The Ghost Road has an intensity and power that I didn't observe in the prior two books. Clearly, The Ghost Road is a step above those excellent novels.
I am often left wondering why books that win prestigious prizes (like the 1995 Booker Prize . . . awarded to The Ghost Road) did so. I have no doubt that this award was well earned.
Life can be an ironic event, punctuated by moments of sublime joy. I have seldom read a novel that captured those perspectives as well as The Ghost Road does.
Brava, Ms. Barker!
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This book shouldn't be read without its two predecessor volumes, which introduce and develop the two central characters, one based on fact (Rivers), one totally fictional (Prior). The sense of impending doom grows inexorably as the plot unfolds, but the ending nevertheless has power to shock.
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Ich war von dem Buch sehr begeistert. Es war spannend zu lesen, besonders aufgrund der verschiedenen Erzählperspektiven. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Februar 2001 von ankelieberich@web.de
I've Met Several South Africans On My Travels
And they were all arrogant and predictably wrong about their views on life. This dude must feel really embarrassed about his review (which has gone worldwide) so let's give him a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. März 2000 von "stuartgraves"
The Ghost Road of Human Civilization
Recalling the books of Lost Generation enriched with psychoanalytic experience and author's brilliant style, Ms Pat Barker's sad story takes all your attention from the first... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Februar 2000 von Andrew Karbovsky
A mesmerizing trip into the dark, gritty soul of humanity
Whilst it took me a while to get into, it was well worth the perseverence. Barker goes deep into the human psyche and into the grim reality of war and ritual violence. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. November 1999 veröffentlicht
There were air raids
Our South African friend should have checked the history books before making his attack on the verisimilitude of this author. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Stunning
Only "The Triumph and the Glory" can rival "The Ghost Road" as a profoundly moving novel of war and the psychology of combat. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Boring, over-the-top carnality, cliched, gross book.
What the heck does Pat Barker know about World War One? Only what she's read in her 'Eye Witness Picture Guide To The Great War.' She knows nothing. Really nothing. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Februar 1999 von ad1979@hotmail.com
A Gathering Storm
Pat Barker's trilogy, "Regeneration, "The Eye in the Door," and "The Ghost Road," was like reading a gathering storm. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. März 1998 von tmartin01@ibm.net
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