The Eye in the Door

By (author): "Pat Barker"
Genres:Fiction books  Historical Fiction books  Historical books  War books  World War I books  
Publish Date: 1993
The Eye in the Door
ISBN0452272726
ISBN139780452272729
AsinThe Eye in the Door
CharactersSiegfried Sassoon, Billy Prior, Charles Manning, Dr. William Rivers
Original titleThe Eye in the Door
SeriesRegeneration #2
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be ...