Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)

by Pat Barker

4.25 of 5 stars 4 ratings • 1 review • 8 shelved
Book cover for Regeneration
Shelve It

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

In 1917 Seigfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: The war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim. It is one of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time. "Regeneration" is the first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed World War I trilogy, which continues with "The Eye in the Door" and culminates in the 1995 Booker Prize-winning "The Ghost Road."
  • ISBN10 0452270073
  • ISBN13 9780452270077
  • Publish Date 27 May 1993 (first published 7 May 1992)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 January 2010
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint New American Library
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 252
  • Language English