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Pat Barker, Gilli Wright
ISBN: 9780140270754
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
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Stephen embarks on a book about the images of war, based on his late friend Ben Frobisher's photographs. He is having recurring nightmares of his time in Sarajevo, threatening his peace of mind. This is a novel about the atrocity of war and how two men struggle to come to terms with it.
Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares Stephen Sharkey is suffering the aftereffects of his career as a war reporter, most recently in Afghanistan, where Ben Frobisher, war photographer and friend, has been shot dead on assignment. Hanging up his flak jacket and turning his back on the everyday reality of war, Stephen moves into a quiet and peaceful cottage in the north of England. It seems the perfect environment in which to write his book on the representations of war one that will be based largely on Ben Frobisher's work. But Stephen's supposed isolation offers no protection from other people's suffering or the shattering effects of human brutality ...
| ISBN | 0140270752 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780140270754
(What's this?) | | Pages | 320 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 212 | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 02 Sep 2004 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | PR6052.A64 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General |
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