Pat Barker

by Monteith, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9780746309001
• ISBN10: 0746309007
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-06-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

A full evaluation of the innovative, award-winning British novelist Pat Barker, whose first novel, the acclaimed Union Street was published in 1982, and whose novel The Ghost Road won the Booker Prize in 1995.

Author Biography

Sharon Monteith is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Biographical Outline	p. ix
Abbreviations and References	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Stories of 'the other Britain': Union Street and Blow Your House Down	p. 11
'You don't kill time, time kills you': Storytelling and Liza's England	p. 28
Performing the Self: The Man Who Wasn't There	p. 42
'We will remember them': The Regeneration Trilogy	p. 53
Looking Forward into the Past: Another World	p. 80
Understanding not Condemning: Border Crossing	p. 94
Postscript	p. 108
Notes	p. 111
Select Bibliography	p. 122
Index	p. 129
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