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Double Vision

Pat Barker Gilli Wright

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English
Penguin
02 September 2004
In Double Vision Pat Barker returns to the subject of war.

Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares - Stephen Sharkey is suffering the aftereffects of his career as a war reporter, most recently in Afghanistan, where Ben Frobisher, war photographer and friend, has been shot dead on assignment. Hanging up his flak jacket and turning his back on the everyday reality of war, Stephen moves into a quiet and peaceful cottage in the north of England. It seems the perfect environment in which to write his book on the representations of war - one that will be based largely on Ben Frobisher's work. But Stephen's supposed isolation offers no protection from other people's suffering or the shattering effects of human brutality . . .
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 200mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   230g
ISBN:   9780140270754
ISBN 10:   0140270752
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Pat Barker's novels include Union Street, the Regeneration Trilogy (comprising Regeneration, The Eye In The Door and The Ghost Road), Another World and Border Crossing. She lives in Durham.

Reviews for Double Vision

"""A story that is both terrifying and fascinating....Wholly engrossing."" --Neil Gordon, ""New York Times Book Review"" ""One doesn't often find the caliber of writing displayed in Barker's latest, a compulsively readable novel."" --Joanne Wilinson, ""Booklist"" ""As briskly taut as a thriller and, at the same time, a deeply thoughtful consideration of how our lives are changed by sweeping historical tragedy and everyday acts of violence...We keep paging rapidly through the novel, even as we pause to admire the trenchant reflections."" --Francine Prose, "" O"" Magazine"


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