A Pat Barker classic is 'Union Street', a fantastic collection of stories which brings together the lives of women both young and old, who face the harsh challenges of a precarious world.
'Union Street' was first published in 1982 and was also Pat Barkers first book published. But it has remained a masterpiece and tribute to Pat Barker's ability to tell a hard-hitting story.
Have you read it?
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‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/24/greek-classics-pat-barker-brie-larson-hunger-games-moulin-rouge #Classicsandancienthistory #AliceOswald #RickRiordan #EllaHickson #StephenFry #BrieLarson #PatBarker #Culture #Fiction #Books #Homer
Financial Times: Laura Battle: Best Fiction Books of 2024
#PatBarker / #ElizabethStrout / #SallyRooney / ...
https://www.yearendlists.com/2024/laura-battle-best-fiction-books-of-2024
Finished Pat Barker's Another World last night and was slightly disappointed. I loved the Regeneration Trilogy and the first two of her Ancient Greece trilogy, but Another World seemed a bit unfinished, where two very different types of stories didn't ever quite line up in a meaningful way.
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#TheSilenceOfTheGirls sounds (well, you know what I mean) like a very interesting book. Saw the Swedish edition, as well as the second in the series (in English) in the shop today. I have a mile high TBR pile, so I never brought them home.
I should have, shouldn't I?
Currently reading #Machine by #ElizabethBear and enjoying it.
Just finished #TheGoldenEnclaves by #NaomiNovik, and loved the whole #Scholomance series.
What I happened to read in October:
#VirginiaWoolf, Between the Acts, 1941
#ThomasMann, Confessions of Felix Krull, 1954
#FrantzFanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
#PatBarker, Burn Your House Down, 1984
#WilsonHarris, Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness & Genesis of the Clowns, 1977.
This last book, Genesis of the Clowns, might be Harris's Heart of Darkness -- it's that good -- except it's a kind of bitter comedy.
Thankyou #MarkKermode for introducing me to #Blowyourhousedown by #PatBarker #lovebooks
Blood Libels — #CliveSinclair
Episodes — #ChristopherPriest
Banthology — #SarahCleave et al.
Das glückliche Geheimnis — #ArnoGeiger
Mozambique Mysteries — #LisaStAubindeTerán
Die Katze und der General — #NinoHaratischwili
Spiel auf vielen Trommeln: Erzählungen — #OlgaTokarczuk tr. #EstherKinsky
Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories — #RuthRendell
The Complete Maus — #ArtSpiegelman
Noonday — #PatBarker
Kältere Schichten der Luft — #AntjeRávikStrubel
Why have I never read #PatBarker before? "Two glasses of whisky later, Rachel was already slightly slewed. She squinted at Elinor, as if a sea-fret had suddenly blown into the drawing room."
Epic win! Why women are lining up to reboot the classics https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/epic-win-why-women-are-lining-up-to-reboot-the-classics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@Helen50 I’m enjoying the retellings, #MadelineMiller and recently #PatBarker, and I have all the #StephenFry ones lined up!
