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Life Class
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Barker, Pat
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Life class novels (Pat Barker) volume 1.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009
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In the spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but watches from afar when a well-known painter catches her eye. After World War I begins, Paul tends to the dying soldiers from the front line as a Belgian Red Cross volunteer, but the longer he remains, the greater the distance between him and home becomes. By the time he returns, Paul must confront not only the overwhelming, perhaps impossible challenge of how to express all that he has seen and experienced, but also the fact that life, and love, will never be the same for him again.
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Street Date:
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Pat Barker. (2009). Life Class. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Pat Barker. 2009. Life Class. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Pat Barker, Life Class. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.

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Pat Barker. Life Class. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.

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        "Beautiful and evocative . . . a coming-of-age story that transcends the individual and gestures to the fate of a generation." --People"Life Class possesses organic power and narrative sweep. . . . Barker conjures up the hellish terrors of the war and its fallout with meticulous precision." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Here, as in her best fiction, Barker unveils psychologically rich characters. . . and resists the trappings of a neat love story, reminding us once again that in art and life we remain infinitely mysterious." --San Francisco Chronicle"A book so alive from page to page that it's difficult to put down."

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        October 22, 2007
        Set initially in 1914 before the start of WWI, Barker’s first novel since 2004’s Double Vision tells the story of two students at London’s Slade School of Fine Art, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke, along with that of Kit Neville, a promising young painter. Paul begins an affair with Teresa Halliday, a troubled artist’s model, and Kit woos Elinor, but both men rush off to the Continent at the outset of hostilities to work with the wounded. The author’s unflinching eye for detail and her supple prose create an undeniably powerful narrative, but her skills cannot compensate for a weak plot. What appear to be critical story lines (Paul’s affair with Teresa, Kit’s painting career) are almost abandoned once Paul and Elinor become lovers. And the book’s main theme—war’s impact on art and love—pales in comparison with the tragic experiences of those who fight and die in the conflict. Despite riveting passages depicting the waste and horror of WWI, this effort falls short of the standard set by Barker’s magisterial Regeneration trilogy, the last of which, The Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize.

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