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The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

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Author Biography

Name: Pat(ricia) Barker
Variant Name: Pat(ricia) Barker, Patricia Barker, Patricia Margaret Barker
Birth Date: May 8, 1943
Nationality: British
Gender: Female

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Biography of Pat(ricia) Barker
6913 words, approx. 23 pages
Pat Barker is a nearly pure novelist: she writes no short stories, no poetry, but, beginning with her first novel, Union Street (1982), immediately declared herself as a major novelist. In the following year she appeared on Granta's list of the "Twenty B...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Ghost Road Information
382 words, approx. 1 pages
The Ghost Road is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize. It is the third volume of a trilogy that follows the fortunes of shell-shocked British army officers towards the end of the First World War. The other books...


News and Journals
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Publishers Weekly
The Ghost Road. (book reviews)
11/27/1995: 368 words, approx. 1 pages
Pat Barker. Dutton/William Abrahams, $20.95 (278p) ISBN 0-525-94191-6 The Booker Prize recently awarded to Barker for this book, the culmination of her astonishing WW I trilogy that began with Regeneration and The Eye in the Door, persuaded Dutton to move publication ahead by...
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National Review
Ghosts on the road.(COUNTRY LIFE)
02/25/2008: 1,008 words, approx. 3 pages
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN the winter I have a clear view through the bare trees of my dirt driveway, all the way to the road. Hardly any strange cars come down it except those of Jehovah's Witnesses, so when one appeared I went out...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Peter Parker
2,050 words, approx. 7 pages
Parker is English nonfiction writer and biographer. In the following review of The Ghost Road, he remarks on the distinctive qualities of Barker's trilogy and praises her blending of fiction and historical fact.
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Critical Review by Charlotte Joll
825 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Joll remarks on Barker's treatment of shell shock and war in The Ghost Road.
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Critical Review by Tony Gould
425 words, approx. 1 pages
In the review below, Gould remarks favorably on The Ghost Road.
 


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The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

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