This story of a 1950s latch-key kid and his search for a father, is a mixture of make-believe and gritty reality. The author's other books include "Union Street", "Blow Your House Down" and "The Century's Daughter".
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"With her novels, she adds dignity to this century's often bleak and undignified human record." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. Pat Barker is married and lives in Durham.
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Colin Harper, one eye open for snipers, turned the corner into his own road. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brian Combey, Clifford Avenue, Uncle Reg New!
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- The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker in Front Matter
- Another World: A Novel by Pat Barker in Front Matter
- Blow Your House Down by Pat Barker in Front Matter
- The Ghost Road (William Abrahams) by Pat Barker in Front Matter
- Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker in Front Matter
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- Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction Through Interviews by Jenny Newman on page 1, page 2, and page 14
- The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature by Michael Cox on page 587, and Index
- The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English by Lorna Sage on page 39
- Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing by Jane Eldridge Miller on page 28
- Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing by Jane Eldridge Miller on page 28
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