Life Class, 9780241986493
Paperback
Art, love, war: a generation shattered, forever changed by conflict.

Life Class

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    2 September 2019

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Summary

The breathtaking novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy.

In the Spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville – himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter – makes it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist’s model.…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241986493
ISBN-10:0241986494
Author:Pat Barker
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:2 September 2019
Weight:144g
Dimensions:182mm x 112mm x 16mm
Series:Penguin Essentials
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Critics Review

Sharply written and elegantly constructed…breathtaking– Guardian A compelling read– Literary Review Thoughtful, ambiguous and powerful– Sunday Telegraph A compelling read– Literary Review

Sharply written and elegantly constructed…breathtaking * Guardian *A compelling read * Literary Review *Thoughtful, ambiguous and powerful * Sunday Telegraph *A compelling read * Literary Review *

About The Author

Pat Barker

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.

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