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The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Eye in the Door about?
326 pages ; 24 cm 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 ... [This] is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it Originally published: London: Viking, 1993
Who reads The Eye in the Door?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Pat Barker
- Publisher
- Leicester: Charnwood
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781444820539
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (199 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13