Life Class

Informationen zum Autor Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road . The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series. Klappentext Beginning at the Slade School of Art in the spring of 1914, and taking us to the field hospitals of Ypres, LIFE CLASS shows just how deeply the effects of war can run, as student Paul Tarrant's perceptions of life, love and art are changed forever Zusammenfassung Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' studio for his life-drawing class. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely?

Product details

• Authors: Pat Barker
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780141019475
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101947-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Puffin Paperbacks; Penguin Essentials; The Life Class Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, Belgium, c 1910 to c 1919, First World War fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1)