TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Pat
TI  - The ghost road
T2  - Regeneration trilogy
SN  - 0452276721 (pbk.) :
PY  - 1996///, c1995
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Plume/Penguin
KW  - Owen, Wilfred,
KW  - Rivers, W. H. R.
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Psychiatrists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - War neuroses
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - War stories
N1  - "A William Abrahams book."; "Previously published in a Dutton edition"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza, returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war
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