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The eye in the door / Pat Barker.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Barker Regener 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Pat, 1943-
- Series:
- Barker, Pat, 1943- Regeneration
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922--Fiction.
- Rivers, W. H. R.
- Sassoon, Siegfried, 1888-1967--Fiction.
- Sassoon, Siegfried.
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Poets, English--20th century--Fiction.
- Poets, English.
- Psychiatrists--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Psychiatrists.
- Gay people--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Gay people.
- Genre:
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- War stories.
- Physical Description:
- 280 p. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, 1994.
- Summary:
- In the spring of 1918, on the battlefields of France, a mammoth German offensive threatens the English army with defeat. In England itself, a beleaguered government and panic-stricken, vengeful public seek scapegoats. Two groups are targeted for persecution and prosecution: pacifists and homosexuals. Many are jailed, others lead dangerous double lives; and "the eye in the door" becomes a symbol of the paranoia that threatens to destroy the very fabric of British society. Central to this novel is Lieutenant Billy Prior, recently released from treatment for shell shock by psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers. Prior is in London, assigned to a domestic Intelligence unit.
- ISBN:
- 0525938087
- 9780525938088
- 0452272726 (pbk.)
- 9780452272729 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 420882465
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