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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pat_BarkerPat Barker - Wikipedia

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   Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL ( née Drake; born 8 May 1943) [1] is a British writer and novelist. [2] . She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken.

   • Children: 1
   • Notable works: Regeneration Trilogy

   • Occupation: Novelist
   • Spouse: David Barker

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3. www.newyorker.com › 25 › the-many-wars-of-pat-barkerThe Many Wars of Pat Barker - The New Yorker

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   Oct 18, 2021 · Celebrated for her First World War trilogy, Barker has been reimagining the Trojan War through the eyes of its female victims. But what happens when gritty realism meets myth? By Daniel...

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4. www.theguardian.com › books › 2021Pat Barker on The Silence of the Girls: ‘The Iliad is myth ...

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   Aug 7, 2021 · The Booker-winning novelist knew when she read the Iliad that she would write about Briseis one day. Pat Barker. Sat 7 Aug 2021 07.00 EDT. Last modified on Thu 15 Dec 2022 12.46 EST. I n...

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6. literature.britishcouncil.org › writer › pat-barkerPat Barker - Literature - British Council

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   Pat Barker is a novelist who explores the effects of war, history and trauma on individuals and society. She won the Booker Prize for her trilogy of novels about the First World War, Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road. She also wrote about prostitution, homosexuality, child rape and other topics in her earlier works.

   • Place Of Birth: Thornaby-on-Tees, England

   • Works For: Hamish Hamilton Ltd

7. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1) by Pat Barker ...

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   Aug 30, 2018 · Pat Barker. 3.90. 91,434 ratings10,593 reviews. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which continues to wage bloody war over a stolen woman—Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman—Briseis—watches and waits for the war's outcome.

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8. www.goodreads.com › author › showPat Barker (Author of The Silence of the Girls) - Goodreads

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   Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy Regeneration; The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize; and The Ghost Road, winner of the Booker Prize; as well as seven other novels. She's married and lives in Durham, England. Pat Barker, CBE, FRSL was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943.

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   What is Pat Barker best known for?

   • Double Vision (2003) concerns the atrocity of war and two men who are caught up in its shadow. Pat Barker was awarded a CBE in 2000. Her latest novels are Life Class (2007), Toby's Room (2012), returning to the First World War, Noonday (2015) and The Silence of the Girls (2018).

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   Is Pat Barker a good read?

   • Pat Barker's work never makes comfortable reading, for she chooses to explore, with an unflinching eye, subjects such as prostitution, homosexuality, child rape, incest, mental illness, pacifism, war, and murder by minors.

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   Is Anna Barker still married to David Barker?

   • In 1969, she was introduced, in a pub, to David Barker, a zoology professor and neurologist 20 years her senior, who left his marriage to live with her. They had two children together, and were married in 1978, after his divorce. Their daughter Anna Barker Ralph is a novelist. Barker was widowed when her husband died in January 2009.

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   What is Barker's narrative twist?

   • ” Barker’s narrative twist, foregrounding a character who is pivotal to the poem and yet not all that visible within it, was meant to point to the human costs of the masculine heroism that Homer so often celebrates—the “brutal reality of conquest and slavery.”

   Pat Barker’s New Novel of the Trojan War, Reviewed - The New Yorker

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10. www.theguardian.com › books › 2021The Women of Troy by Pat Barker review – bleak and impressive

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    Aug 20, 2021 · Book of the day Pat Barker. This article is more than 2 years old. The Women of Troy by Pat Barker review – bleak and impressive. In the sequel to her Iliad retelling The Silence of the...