Welcome Guest, Not a member yet? Create Account  

Story-Portal Portal

Forum Statistics

14 Members,   3,536 Topics,   10,207 Replies,   Latest Member is Stanley


  Le Garon sur la colline (1980)
Posted by: Frenuyum - 12-05-2025, 09:31 AM - Replies (1)

   


La sympathie est immédiate entre l’homme et l’enfant. Ensemble, malgré la méfiance des gens du village intrigués par l’attitude peu conventionnelle de l’étranger, ils vont passer de merveilleux moments. Pascal laissant peu à peu resurgir un passé douloureux et révélant pour finir à son nouvel ami des secrets qu’il n’avait jamais osé avouer à personne… Comment pourrait-il se douter du cauchemar qui l’attend ? 

The sympathy is immediate between the man and the child. Ensemble, malgré la méfiance des gens du village intrigues par l’attitude peu conventionnelle de l’étranger, ils vont passer de merveilleux moments. Pascal slowly resurgirs himself and resurgents himself and renews his new secrets that are still open to the person... Comment pourrait-il se douter du cauchemar qui l'attend ?

Continue reading..

  Michael - Tank Water (2021)
Posted by: Frenuyum - 12-05-2025, 09:28 AM - Replies (1)

   



James Brandt didn't look back when he got away from his rural hometown as a teenager. Now he has returned to Kippen for the first time in twenty years because his cousin Tony has been found dead under the local bridge.
The news that Tony has left him the entire family farm triggers James's journalistic curiosity – and his anxiety – both of which cropped up during his turbulent journey to adulthood. But it is the unexpected homophobic attack he survives that draws James into a hunt for the reasons one lonely Kippen farm boy in every generation kills himself.
Standing in the way is James's father, the town's recently retired top cop, who is not prepared to investigate crimes no-one reckons have taken place. James must use every newshound's trick he ever learned in order to uncover the brutal truth.
A coming-of-age story and crime thriller with a large and gentle heart.
'The parochial under-belly of rural Australia is laid bare in this raw and powerful story...

Continue reading..

  Regeneration (1991)
Posted by: Frenuyum - 12-05-2025, 09:24 AM - Replies (1)

   



Amazon.com Review
Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear -- the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing -- it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road. 

From Library Journal
In 1917, decorated British officer and poet Siegfried Sassoon wrote a declaration condemning the war. Instead of a court-martial, he was sent to a hospital for other "shell-shocked" officers where he was treated by Dr. William Rivers, noted an thropologist and psychiatrist. Author Barker turns these true occurrences into a compelling and brilliant antiwar novel. Sassoon's complete sanity disturbs Dr. Rivers to such a point that he questions his own role in "curing" his patients only to send them back to the slaughter of the war in France. World War I decimated an entire generation of European men, and the horrifying loss of life and the callousness of the government led to the obliteration of the Victorian ideal. This is an important and impressive novel about war, soldiers, and humanity. It belongs in most fiction collections.

Continue reading..

  The Eye in the Door (1993)
Posted by: Frenuyum - 12-05-2025, 09:21 AM - Replies (1)

   


The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

WINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE'

Spellbinding and startlingly original' Sunday Telegraph'

Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent' Independent on Sunday'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians' A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph 

London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be. The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it. 

The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road

Continue reading..

  The Ghost Road (1995)
Posted by: Frenuyum - 12-05-2025, 09:18 AM - Replies (1)

   



The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence of the Girls'An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe'

Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' - Sunday Times'

Harrowing, original, unforgettable' - Independent

1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation. The Ghost Road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the First World War.

Continue reading..

Online Users
There is currently 1 user online 0 Member(s) | 1 Guest(s)

Welcome, Guest
You have to register before you can post on our site.

Username
  

Password
  

Search Forums

(Advanced Search)