description: Booker Prize-winning author Pat Barker retells history with moving personal stories of the people who were in the trenches through the ferocious final phase of World War I. In this stunning, intimate glimpse of war, Barker creates ravaged psychological landscapes and blighted battlefields where the armies endlessly wage deadly campaigns. Famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers faces the wrenching challenge of restoring men to health, only to send them back to war and almost certain death. Lieutenant Billy Prior, who is cured of shell shock by Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, is compelled beyond reason to return to the battlefield for a fourth tour of duty. For both men, the war is inescapable and consuming. This engrossing audiobook combines poetic intensity with gritty realism as Barker brilliantly evokes a war of dramatic changes and cynical fatalism. Lovers of historical novels and tightly-plotted fiction will be entranced by the compelling characters and fascinating psychological panorama of "The Ghost Road."
language: English
title: The Ghost Road
titlecomplete: The Ghost Road
characters: Dr. William Rivers, Billy Prior
genres: Historical, Literature, World War I, Literary Fiction, Novels, LGBT, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 17248
series: Regeneration
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Best of the Booker, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Αρώνειο Έπαθλο Ενώσεως Σμυρναίων
publisher: Recorded Books, Inc