![]() The central patient this time around is Billy Prior, a lieutenant tormentedīy fugue states, blank spots in his memory during which he seems to operate outside his own control. ![]() In World War I, and particularly with the poet Siegfried Sassoon. "The Eye in the Door" is Pat Barker's sequel to "Regeneration," her widely hailed 1992 novel about the work of the psychiatrist William Rivers with young British soldiers traumatized by their experiences It's tantalizing to imagine Ishmael in action again, but it's also unnerving. ![]() Reader a little extra trepidation and hope, so does the notion of a sequel to a successful historical novel. And if the notion of a work of fiction based on history creates in the ![]() It's one thing to come up short and render one's own poor lifeĪnd times as devoid of interest or complexity, but to do the same to the lives of Pablo Picasso or Mary, Queen of Scots, seems like a greater offense. Riting about history raises the stakes for the novelist. ![]()
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