The Man Who Wasn't There

In Pat Barker's The Man Who Wasn't There, twelve-year-old Colin knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother, totally absorbed by the nightclub where she works, says nothing about him, and Colin turns to films for images of what his father might have been. Weaving in and out of Colin's real life, his imagined film explores issues of loyalty and betrayal and searches for the answer to the question 'What is a man?'

Author: Pat Barker
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 04/01/2001
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.49w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780312275433
ISBN10: 0312275439
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | England | 20th Century

About the Author

Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics and has been a teacher of history and politics. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. Pat Barker is married and lives in Durham.

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