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From the Booker Prize?winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy, 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.
Doubleday
February 2008
On Sale: January 29, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0385524358
EAN: 9780385524353
Hardcover
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Fiction | Historical
It is the spring of 1914 and a group of young students have
gathered in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul
Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two parts of an intriguing
love triangle and, in the first days of war, they turn to
each other. As spring turns to summer, Paul volunteers for
the Belgian Red Cross and tends to wounded, dying soldiers
from the front line. By the time he returns, Paul must
confront the fact that life and love will never be the same
for him again.
In Life Class, Pat Barker
returns to her most renowned subject: the human devastation
and psychic damage wrought by World War One on all levels of
British society. Her skill in relaying the harrowing
experience of modern warfare is matched by the depth of
insight she brings to the experience of love and the
morality of art in a time of war. Life Class is one
of her genuine masterpieces.
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