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1918, and Billy Prior is in France once again. A real test case for the 'shell-shock' therapies practised at Craiglockhart War Hospital where, with Wilfred Owen, he was a patient. In London, Prior's psychologist, William Rivers, tends to his new patients, more young men whose lives and minds have been shattered.… (más)
Está ambientada en los últimos meses de la Primera Guerra Mundial., cuando millones de hombres que participan en una brutal guerra de trincheras ya no son mas que fantasmas en ciernes. ( )
Pat Barker has incorporated many of the actual words of the war's most eloquent narrators in her complex and ambitious work . . . too striking as hybrids of fact and possibility, easy humor and passionate social argument to be classified as anything but the masterwork to date of a singular and ever-evolving novelist who has consistently made up her own rules.
Njiru, Kundaite, Namboko Toru, Namboko Emele, Nareti, Lembu and the captive child are also historical, but of them nothing more is known. (Author's Note)
1918, and Billy Prior is in France once again. A real test case for the 'shell-shock' therapies practised at Craiglockhart War Hospital where, with Wilfred Owen, he was a patient. In London, Prior's psychologist, William Rivers, tends to his new patients, more young men whose lives and minds have been shattered.
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