Another World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Pat Barker
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Newcastle, England
- Principal Characters: Geordie, Nick, Fran, Miranda, Gareth, Jasper, Frieda, Helen, Harry, Barbara
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Children, Parents and children, England or English people, Fathers, Death or dying, Grandparents or grandchildren, World War I, Cruelty, 1990’s, Euthanasia or right to die
- Locales: Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Like Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (1992), Pat Barker’s Another World demonstrates that the memory of the mind can survive the depletion of the body. Both novels invalidate any notion of the past as remote. In The English Patient, a World War II combat pilot, whose body is ravaged in a fiery crash but whose mind remains intact by the charity of a nurse he can only touch and not see, lives long enough to piece together the fragments of a tragic love. In Another World, a dying 101-year-old survivor of World War I links three generations of his...
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