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Double Vision
Pat Barker
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Description for Double Vision
Paperback. Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls A powerfully thought-provoking portrait of modern warfare from one of the modern masters of war fiction 'Barker is one of our most significant contemporary novelists' Daily Telegraph 'The characters grab hold at the beginning and never loosen their grip. Barker holds us by the sheer beauty of her writing' Financial Times 'Barker has a quite extraordinary ability to combine complexity and clarity and to make both seem parts of ... Read more
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls A powerfully thought-provoking portrait of modern warfare from one of the modern masters of war fiction 'Barker is one of our most significant contemporary novelists' Daily Telegraph 'The characters grab hold at the beginning and never loosen their grip. Barker holds us by the sheer beauty of her writing' Financial Times 'Barker has a quite extraordinary ability to combine complexity and clarity and to make both seem parts of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
218g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140270754
SKU
V9780140270754
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About Pat Barker
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been ... Read more
Reviews for Double Vision
A story that is both terrifying and fascinating....Wholly engrossing.
Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review One doesn't often find the caliber of writing displayed in Barker's latest, a compulsively readable novel.
Joanne Wilinson, Booklist As briskly taut as a thriller and, at the same time, a deeply ... Read more
Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review One doesn't often find the caliber of writing displayed in Barker's latest, a compulsively readable novel.
Joanne Wilinson, Booklist As briskly taut as a thriller and, at the same time, a deeply ... Read more