by Pat Barker · Hamish Hamilton · tapa dura · ISBN 9780241142974
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«Life Class» is the historical fiction novel by Pat Barker, published by Hamish Hamilton in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
In the spring of 1914, Paul Tarrant studies at the Slade School of Art, drawn to Elinor Brooke while Kit Neville, an established painter, also courts her. Paul takes refuge in an affair with a model, but when war breaks out he enlists with the Belgian Red Cross. His fate at Ypres takes him far from everything, and on his return nothing will be the same again.
First installment of Pat Barker's Life Class trilogy, set during the First World War.
For readers of historical fiction, interested in the First World War and artistic training; also suitable for book clubs.
Dame Patricia Mary W. Barker, is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is known for her Regeneration Trilogy, published in the 1990s, and, more recently, a series of books set during the Trojan War, starting with The Silence of the Girls in 2018.
