派特·巴克 Pat Barker 1943年5月8日生于英国约克郡蒂斯河畔索纳比一个工薪阶层家庭。1962—1965年在伦敦政治经济学院学习国际关系史。巴克在第一个孩子出生后才开始写作，早期的小说关注英国工薪阶层女性。《重生》三部曲是她创作的一个转折点和里程碑，入选布克 奖40周年最佳小说、“十大历史小说”（《观察家报》）。《重生》于1997年被搬上银幕且获多项电影奖项提名，2014年被改编成舞台剧；《门中眼》获1993年卫报小说奖；《幽灵路》获1995年布克奖。 巴克于2000年被授予大英帝国指挥官勋章（CBE）。她现居英国达勒姆郡。

1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. . . Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road follow the stories of these men until...(展开全部)

派特·巴克 Pat Barker 1943年5月8日生于英国约克郡蒂斯河畔索纳比一个工薪阶层家庭。1962—1965年在伦敦政治经济学院学习国际关系史。巴克在第一个孩子出生后才开始写作，早期的小说关注英国工薪阶层女性。《重生》三部曲是她创作的一个转折点和里程碑，入选布克 奖40周年最佳小说、“十大历史小说”（《观察家报》）。《重生》于1997年被搬上银幕且获多项电影奖项提名，2014年被改编成舞台剧；《门中眼》获1993年卫报小说奖；《幽灵路》获1995年布克奖。 巴克于2000年被授予大英帝国指挥官勋章（CBE）。她现居英国达勒姆郡。

In 1917 Seigfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: The war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him bac...(展开全部)

Craiglockhart War Hospital， Scotland， 1917， where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen， as well as mute Billy Prior， who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending h...(展开全部)

'It ["Urban Regeneration"] should make life somewhat easier for practitioners and will offer a further stimulus to the development of taught courses in the not-so-gentle art of regeneration' - "Urban Studies". Providing students and practitioners with a detailed overview of the key theoretical and applied issues, this book is a comprehensive and integrated primer on regeneratio...(展开全部)

'It [Urban Regeneration] Should make life somewhat easier for practitioners and will offer a further stimulus to the development of taught courses in the not-so-gentle art of regeneration' - Urban Studies Providing students and practitioners with a detailed overview of the key theoretical and applied issues, this book is a comprehensive and integrated primer on regeneration. Th...(展开全部)

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)

"The Corfu Trilogy" consists of the popular classic, "My Family and Other Animals" and its delightful sequels, "Birds, Beasts and Relatives" and "The Garden of the Gods". All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentic English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teemin...(展开全部)