BARKER, Pat. The Regeneration Trilogy. London: Viking. 1991-1995.
8vo. Three volumes. Original grey cloth lettered in red to spine (Vol. I) and black cloth lettered in silver (II and III), in the unclipped dustwrappers, the first two illustrated by Irene von Treskow, The Ghost Road usung an archive photograph; pp. [4], 252; [6], 280; [8], 278, [2]; light pushing to spine tips of Vols. II and III, a few light spots to page block edges, light rubbing to upper edges of Vol. II wrapper; Regeneration signed by the author to a bookplate affixed to title page, The Ghost Road signed directly to title page; a bright, near fine set in like wrappers.
First edition, first printings of Barker’s great First World War trilogy, the first and final volumes signed by the author.
Barker's Trilogy – Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995) – relates the story of the final two years of the First World War through the eyes of the “real” army psychiatrist and neurologist William Rivers, and his “fictional” patient Billy Prior, a lieutenant with dealing with trauma. All three novels deftly fuse fact and fiction, the first treating the plight of another of Rivers’ patients, Siegfried Sassoon (fellow poets Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves also feature).
“…one of the richest and most rewarding works of fiction of recent times. Intricately plotted, beautifully written, skilfully assembled, tender, horrifying and funny, it lives on in the imagination, like the war it so imaginatively and so intelligently explores” (Peter Parker, in The Times Literary Supplement).
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