The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it.
Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. 'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians' A. 'Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent' Independent on Sunday 'Spellbinding and startlingly original' Sunday Telegraph WINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE The Eye in the Door is the second novel in the Regeneration Trilogy. The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - f rom the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The Eye in the Door study guide contains a biography of Pat Barker, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
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