Regeneration

From Pat Barker, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Ghost Road comes the first novel of her highly acclaimed World War I trilogy. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice as one of the best books of 1992, Regeneration is a harrowing portrait of the devastating psychological effects of trench warfare. When decorated war hero Siegfried Sassoon publicly refuses to continue serving as a British officer in World War I, he is classified mentally unsound. At Craiglockhart War Hospital, brilliant psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers must restore Sassoon's "sanity" and send him back to the trenches. It is the story of a battle for a man's mind. Barker's inspiring novel brilliantly recreates the high idealism and unimaginable carnage of "the war to end all wars." She explores this era of cataclysmic change through compelling characters-both historical and fictitious-and artistic prose.