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This trilogy also enjoyed critical success, with one of the novels winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize and another of them shortlisted for it. The novel ends with Rivers completing his notes, meditating on the effect that the encounter with Sassoon, and the last few months, have had on him.
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Prior often envies those who are not involved in the war experience, such as Sarah, his love interest in the novel.
She goes on to state that "One of the things that impresses me is that two things happen to soldiers in war: a) they get killed or b) they come back more or less alright. The treatment of soldiers who witnessed horrifying battlefield scenes, like the one depicted here by Irish artist William Orpen, is a central part of Regeneration's focus. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front.
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The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication. He believes that the characters that breakdown during the war are "weak" and says that they would break down in civilian life anyway. Rivers is very accepting of this but advises Sassoon to keep this part of his life quiet as it was illegal to be homosexual in Britain at this time. Some critics have written extensively on the place of women within the novel, even though it focuses on men. Although they try to do the manly thing by enlisting in the war and fighting for their country, they must face society's judgment that it is decidedly unmanly to suffer a breakdown.Other famous historical novels include Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001) and Brooklyn (2009) by Colm Tóibín. Some of the soldiers experience injury and trauma that results in them too being sent to Craiglockhart. He is described as ‘a thin, fair-haired young man of twenty-two with high cheekbones, a short, blunt nose and a supercilious expression’ (p. Amid the recent slew of rewritings of the great Greek myths and classics, Barker's stands out for its forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion".
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Prior is a complicated character; though he gives the staff a hard time he truly wants to get better. He is a war surgeon who has become traumatised by the sight of blood and is now struggling to get back into his profession. By making Prior mute, she accepts Rivers’ testimony that officers and ranking men suffer from different forms of shell shock, but she does not accept his account of the reasons for this difference.Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. Using these sources, she created characters based on historical individuals present at the hospital including poets and patients, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and psychiatrist W. Even if we limit the field to recent historical fiction concerned with the First World War, Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong (1993), published contemporaneously with the Regeneration trilogy, has not caught on among historians to anything like the same extent, despite achieving significant critical and popular success. He is not a pacifist but is working class and does not like helping the authorities to spy on ordinary people. The psychiatrist has been a favoured character for novels before this one, leading the reader into the hidden stories of those whom he or she treats.
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