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Pat Barker CBE, FRSL (born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres around themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. In 2012, The Observer named the Regeneration Trilogy as one of "The 10 best historical novels".
Barker was born to a working-class family in Thornaby-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943. Her mother Moyra died in 2000, and her father's identity is unknown. According to The Times, Moyra became pregnant “after a drunken night out while in the Wrens”, and, in a climate where illegitimacy was regarded with shame, told people that the resulting child was her sister, rather than her daughter. They lived with Barker's grandmother Alice and step-grandfather William, until her mother married and moved out when Barker was seven. Barker could have joined her mother, she told The Guardian in 2003, but chose to stay with her grandmother "because of love of her, and because my stepfather didn't warm to me, nor me to him". Her grandparents ran a fish and chip shop which failed and the family was, she told The Times in 2007, “poor as church mice; we were living on National Assistance – ‘on the pancrack’, as my grandmother called it”. At the age of eleven she won a place at grammar school, attending King James Grammar School in Knaresborough and Grangefield Grammar School in Stockton-on-Tees.
Barker, who says she has always been an avid reader, went on to study international history at the London School of Economics. After graduating in 1965, she returned home to nurse her grandmother, who died in 1971. In 1969, she was introduced, in a pub, to David Barker, a zoology professor and neurologist 20 years her senior, who left his marriage to live with her. They had two children together, and were married in 1978, after his divorce. Their daughter Anna Ralph is now a novelist. Barker was widowed when David died in January 2009.
In her mid-twenties, Barker began to write fiction. Her first three novels were never published and, she told The Guardian in 2003, "didn't deserve to be: I was being a sensitive lady novelist, which is not what I am. There's an earthiness and bawdiness in my voice.”
Her first published novel was Union Street, which consisted of seven interlinked stories about English working class women whose lives are circumscribed by poverty and violence. For ten years, the manuscript was rejected by publishers as too “bleak and depressing.” Barker then met novelist Angela Carter at a writers' workshop. Carter liked the book, telling Barker “if they can't sympathise with the women you're creating, then sod their ****ing luck,” and suggested she send the manuscript to feminist publisher Virago, who accepted it. Union Street was later made into a Hollywood film called Stanley and Iris, starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda, but Barker says the film bears little relationship to her book. The New Statesman hailed the novel as a "long overdue working class masterpiece," and the New York Times Book Review called it “first-rate, punchy and raunchy.” As of 2003, it remained one of Virago's top sellers.
Barker's first three novels — Union Street (1982), Blow Your House Down (1984) and Liza's England (1986; originally published as The Century's Daughter) - depicted the lives of working class women in Yorkshire, and are described by BookForum magazine as “full of feeling, violent and sordid, but never exploitative or sensationalistic and rarely sentimental." Blow Your House Down portrays prostitutes living in a North of England city, who are being stalked by a serial killer. Liza's England, described by the Sunday Times as a "modern-day masterpiece," tracks the life of a working-class woman born at the dawn of the 20th century.
In 1983, Barker won the Fawcett Society prize for fiction for Union Street. In 1993 she won the Guardian First Book Award for the Eye in the Door, and in 1995 she won the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road. In May 1997, Barker was awarded an honorary degree by the Open University as Doctor of the University. In 2000, she was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barker |
Regeneration series
Pat Barker - Regeneration (read by Steven Crossley)
Pat Barker - The Eye In The Door (read by Steven Crossley)
Pat Barker - The Ghost Road (read by Steven Crossley)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/7d6f695b040719ccdfbbcbcdae3e2555/Regeneration.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3b8cd2623a6fc99e92f4e21c95aa5041/The_Eye_In_The_Door.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8d2e470f6b156035be2356294a1b17f2/The_Ghost_Road.rar.html |
Other works
Pat Barker - Another World (read by Steven Crossley)
Pat Barker - Border Crossing (read by Simon Prebble)
Pat Barker - Double Vision (read by Johanna Ward)
Pat Barker - Life Class (read by Russell Boulter)
Pat Barker - Toby's Room (read by Nicola Barber)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/548ec04153d3a4a838d7cec529ef69e6/Another_World.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f6b2bc694917b372b191baec6362a70e/Border_Crossing.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d1e193e6f62fb1ca9c97e176c22bbad9/Double_Vision.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1bc69daed090a5439d6bcb9808aaed4c/Life_Class.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c147a08494fc7d9feb1077409a270fcc/Tobys_Room.rar.html |
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