![]() ![]() Prior is in London, assigned to a domestic Intelligence unit. Central to this novel is Lieutenant Billy Prior, recently released from treatment for shell shock by psychiatrist Dr. Many are jailed, others lead dangerous double lives and "the eye in the door" becomes a symbol of the paranoia that threatens to destroy the very fabric of British society. ![]() Two groups are targeted for persecution and prosecution: pacifists and homosexuals. In England itself, a beleaguered government and panic-stricken, vengeful public seek scapegoats. On the battlefields of France, a mammoth German offensive threatens the English army with defeat. Now Pat Barker returns to the World War I era with The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize for 1993. Pat Barker's brilliant antiwar novel, Regeneration, was widely hailed as a masterpiece and was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of 1992. ![]()
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