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Pat barker is one of the reputed novelists and writer from england, who likes to write her books based on the literature and fiction genres. Pat barker is the author of union street, blow your house down, lizas england, the man who wasnt there, the regeneration trilogy regeneration, the eye in the door, and the ghost road, which won the booker prize, another world, border crossing, double vision, and the life class trilogy life. The ghost road by pat barker and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The booker prize recently awarded to barker for this book, the culmination of her astonishing wwi trilogy that began with regeneration and the eye in the door, persuaded dutton to move publication ahe. The first two novels in pat barkers trilogy about the british experience in world war i are regeneration 1991 and the eye in the door 1993.
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