Pat Barker
Pat Barker
Patricia Mary W. "Pat" Barker CBE, FRSL is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. In 2012, The Observer named the Regeneration Trilogy as one of "The 10 best historical novels"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 May 1943
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area became changed characters facial finished interested left life mind portraits sequel soldiers unresolved
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
shapes definitions persons
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
murder killing
Murder is only killing in the wrong place.