Book Description | The Final Book In The Renewal Trilogy, Winner Of The 1995 Booker Prize. Ghost Road Is Pat Parker's Masterpiece And The Culmination Of Her Escalating World War I Trilogy. The Novel Is Set In The Final Months Of The Era's Most Brutal Conflict. Modern And Most Barbaric. In France, Millions Of Men Are Engaged In Brutal Trench Warfare, And They Are All “Ghosts In The Making.” In England, Psychiatrist William Rivers - Who Suffers From Severe Pangs Of Conscience - Treats Psychologically Damaged Victims Of War To Rehabilitate Them Enough To Resume Fighting: One Of These Victims, Billy Pryar, A Brave And Sarcastic Boy Who Was Raised From The Working Class To The Officer Class, Decides To Return To France With His Fellow Officer, The Poet Wilfred Owen, To Fight In A War He No Longer Believes In. |