Central to this novel are two men divided by class and experience, but sharing a mutual respect and empathy. One is Lieutenant Billy Prior, cured of shell shock by famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, and determined to return to the front in France even as the war ent...

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1. Verfasser:	Barker, Pat 1943- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY [u.a.] Dutton 1995
Ausgabe:	1. Dutton print.
Schriftenreihe:	A William Abrahams book A Dutton book
Schlagworte:	Owen, Wilfred <1893-1918> > Fiction Rivers, W. H. R <1864-1922> > (William Halse Rivers) > Fiction Geschichte 1900-2000 Weltkrieg (1914-1918) Poets, English > 20th century > Fiction Psychiatrists > Great Britain > Fiction World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain > Fiction Großbritannien Fiktionale Darstellung
Zusammenfassung:	Central to this novel are two men divided by class and experience, but sharing a mutual respect and empathy. One is Lieutenant Billy Prior, cured of shell shock by famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, and determined to return to the front in France even as the war enters its final ferocious phase in the late summer of 1918. The other is Dr. Rivers himself, consumed by the medical challenge and moral dilemma of restoring men to health so that they can be sent back to the battlefields and almost certain death. Billy Prior is a working-class man on the rise, a "temporary gentleman," who inhabits a sexual, social, and moral no-man's-land. His sexual encounters with both women and men are tinged with a cynical fatalism that the war has engendered. Still, he is eager to join a fellow Craiglockhart "graduate," the poet Wilfred Owen, in France in time to participate in the great English offensive, the "one last push" intended to redeem all the shining heroism and senseless slaughter that has gone before.
Beschreibung:	277 S.
ISBN:	0525941916