Life Class

Life Class

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Author Pat Barker
Format Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 2008-08-07
Pages 256
ISBN-13 9780141019475

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From the Booker Prize-winning and Women”s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

The first novel in Pat Barker”s acclaimed ”Life Class” trilogy – an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart

”Triumphant, inspiring, shattering” The Times

”Barker writes as brilliantly as ever… With great tenderness and insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down” Independent on Sunday

”Masterly, gripping” Penelope Lively

”Extraordinarily powerful” Sunday Telegraph

Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks”s studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won”t take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew – but have his experiences changed him completely?

The Life Class trilogy:
Life Class
Toby”s Room
Noonday

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Weight 0.186 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 13 × 19 cm
Author

Pat Barker
Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint

Penguin Books Ltd
Format

Paperback
ISBN-13

9780141019475
Publication Date

2008-08-07
Publication Year

2008
Pages

256
Country of Publication

GB
Language

English

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