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Most recently, she won the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the final novel the Regeneration Trilogy. The Trilogy provides a creative and critical intervention on the First World War in novels that push to the limits in their descriptions of human endurance. In stories of emotional and physical conflict, Barker explores communities and individuals under stress; whether in late twentieth-century urban landscapes, or in the trenches. But, Barker's work is also witty and unsentimental. She distils historical and class memory, combining the national with the personal and keys into contemporary debates on the social construction of gender and sexuality. 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The eighteen essays in the volume are organized into five sections: \"\"Writing Working-Class Women,\"\" \"\"Dialogue under Pressure,\"\" \"\"Men at War,\"\" \"\"The Talking Cure,\"\" and \"\"Regenerating the Wasteland.\"\" Taken individually, each of the essays yields a variety of insights into Barker's fictions; taken as a whole, the collection provides a fresh and timely overview of Barker's oeuvre and her creative exploration of society. The volume probes Barker's keenly historicized and yet topical preoccupations: the social and psychological ramifications of planned violence in war and random violence in British villages and cities, and the comforts and tensions in relationships, whether between men in war, women in postindustrial cities, or men and women in sex and marriage. The volume also dissects Barker's unflinching gaze on class, sex, murder, and psychosis, and her provocative and emotionally moving images. It includes an interview with the novelist, incorporates her observations on writing her most recent novel, Double Vision, in the aftermath of wars in Bosnia and Iraq, and explores the film adaptation of Regeneration. The volume also presents Sarah Daniels's dramatic adaptation of Barker's novel Blow Your House Down, which has been staged but has not previously appeared in print.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50977745174801,"sku":"GOR002925931","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1570035709.jpg?v=1753005657"},{"product_id":"sncc-s-stories-book-sharon-monteith-9780820358024","title":"SNCC's Stories","description":"Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by young people. 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