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Another World
Another World
hardback | English
Published:
29 October, 1998
hardback | English
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29 October, 1998
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Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death in the painful days before his own. Meanwhile Nick and his wife Fran try to unite their increasingly fractious family by organizing the children into decorating the living room. Gradually, as the old wallpaper is peeled away an obscence portrait of an Edwardian family is revealed. The drawing is an exercise in hate, revealing the history of their house and casting a terrifying shadow over the family.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780670870585 |
| ISBN10 | 0670870587 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 883 g |
| Product Dimensions | 137 x 30 x 216 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Viking |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition. |
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Author's Bio
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her new novel, The Silence of the Girls, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in August 2018.