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A haunting tribute to the experience of poet Siegfried Sassoon during the Great War, Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy established her as one of the foremost fiction writers of our time, culminating inThe Ghost Road,the Booker Prizewinning novel hailed by theNew York Timesas a masterwork. Now she returns to the battlefields of World War I in a dramatic portrait of aspiring artists who inhabited pre-war London before being forced to confront the brutal realities of combat on the Continent. At once a love story and a meditation on the morality of art in a time of calamity,Life Classevokes a world where heart and soul cannot be reconciled by physical survival alone. The questions and discussion topics that follow are intended to enhance your reading of Pat Barker'sLife Class.We hope they will enrich your experience of this mesmerizing novel.Barker, Pat is the author of 'Life Class' with ISBN 9780385524353 and ISBN 0385524358.
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