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Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire

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Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
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The Man Who Wasn't There

by Pat Barker

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ISBN13: 9780312275433
ISBN10: 0312275439
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Twelve-year-old Colin knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother, totally absorbed by the nightclub where she works, says nothing about him, and Colin turns to films for images of what his father might have been. Weaving in and out of Colin's real life, his imagined film explores issues of loyalty and betrayal and searches for the answer to the question 'What is a man?'

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About the Author

Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. Pat Barker is married and lives in Durham.

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ISBN:
9780312275433
Author:
Barker, Pat
Publisher:
Picador USA
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Boys
Subject:
England
Subject:
Fatherless families
Subject:
Fathers and sons
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Edition Number:
1st Picador USA ed.
Series Volume:
GTR-507
Publication Date:
April 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
160
Dimensions:
8.50x5.49x.40 in. .46 lbs.
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