![]() ![]() "Regeneration" is different from those books in many ways. To my mind her fourth novel, "The Man Who Wasn't There," is less successful. She has written about these people with a harsh sympathy that is troubling and compelling: the life of a poor housewife there or a whore or a woman driven to be both must surely be like that, and the world of shabby pubs,īoarded-up terrace houses and urban wastelands where such women exist must be as she describes it. In "Union Street," "Blow Your House Down" and "The Century's Daughter" Towns of the Yorkshire coast where she grew up, her characters the depressed poor of those towns, particularly the women. Her territory has been the bleak industrial P to now, Pat Barker has been a classic example of a working-class realistic novelist. ![]()
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