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false <![CDATA[Border Crossing]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174863566m/448227.jpg 448227 10 Border Crossing is haunted by one of the most disturbing figures in contemporary English culture: the child who kills. The award-winning Regeneration trilogy established Pat Barker's reputation as a novelist able to revive the traumas of war at the beginning of the 20th century. But her most recent fiction (Another World and, now, Border Crossing) revisits the terrain of her first novels (Union Street, Blow Your House Down). The dismal, if commonplace, violence of family life, violence between husbands and wives, fathers and children, children and children is explored alongside the more sensational story of a young man, Danny, whom, tracking down the psychologist who helped to convict him for the murder he committed as a child, wants to "talk about how impossible it was to leave the past behind". A tense, and seductive, relation develops between Danny and Tom Seymour, a professional forced to make his own return to a past in which he has played a defining part in someone else's life. As the brutal details of Danny's crime emerge, Barker confronts the possibilities of cure through time, through speech, through the attention given by one man to another. Danny is a man who is "very, very good at getting people to step across that invisible border", a character who draws attention to the pain, and helplessness, of having been a child. But Border Crossing also refuses to lose sight of his victim. The mutilated body of Lizzie Parks makes a claim on Danny, on Barker and on her readers as this novel probes the relation between Danny and Tom for the "only possible good outcome" of an irreparable act. --Vicky Lebeau 1792432 2001 Border Crossing total:158|5:17|4:60|3:62|2:15|1:4| 158 545 213 24 4 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Sep 07 07:10:14 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 13:27:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 16 12:32:43 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 12:32:43 -0700 2008
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The disintegration of the marriage feels so real that it was painful to read. Shadowed in the background was recent death the main ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 11:42:37 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 11:44:50 -0800 2008 Regeneration was a great novel, but not just a one-shot fluke. Pat Barker is one of the finest. Gripping plot, significant characters, moral complexity, tight pacing yet it opens up a fully developed world.]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 06:17:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 15:32:15 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Sep 20 09:13:48 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 09:18:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 27 09:13:32 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 09:14:25 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 12:11:15 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 12:11:56 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 16:14:16 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 16:15:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 13 06:39:51 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 06:39:51 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Mar 27 10:12:05 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 27 10:12:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 16:11:36 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 07:40:43 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 05:09:54 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 05:12:09 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 04:05:51 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 21:19:50 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Mon Oct 20 15:14:47 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 15:16:23 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 19:39:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 19:40:42 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Mar 25 15:59:38 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 27 14:30:07 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Mon May 19 13:37:54 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 13:38:57 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=448227