Life Class Trilogy: Life Class Lib/E (Series #1) (CD-Audio)

from oparaxenos

I read Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy over 10 years ago and loved it, and this was the first time since that I came back to one of her books. I was not disappointed. I got through this well-written book in only a few sittings and it was one of those books that you can't wait to get back to. A ...

from RidgewayGirl

The whole world belonged to them because they were on their way to die. In the spring of 1914, Paul struggles at Slade, the London art school, especially in life class. Coming from a northern working class background, he feels removed from the other students. But Elinor, one of the few women stu...

from m2snick

In Life Class, Pat Barker explores the nexus between art and war. The first half of the book concerns three young people studying in a prestigious art school in London. These students are suffering from the anxieties typical of youth. Class barriers, the pressures of the school's demands, their p...

from maryreinert

I haven't read much fiction set during WWI and I thought the juxtaposition of the war front and the art school was very interesting and promising. The setting did come alive: the isolation of the art world and the horror of the battlefield hosptial are both well drawn. Unfortunately, the characte...

from Cariola

Barker takes yet another approach to World War I. She begins with a group of young people attending art school. Paul is constantly told by the teacher that he has no talent, while Elinor wins scholarship after scholarship. Yet the war disrupts everyone's lives. Too ill with asthma to enlist, Paul...