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Novelist Pat Barker.

British writer Pat Barker is best known for her "Regeneration" trilogy set in the shadows of WWI. In 1995,
she received the Booker Prize for its concluding novel, The Ghost Road. She has written the new novel "Another World." (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Pat Barker grew up poor in the industrial North, once remarking that her decision to write about war was a deliberate response to patronizing reviews of her working-class settings in her earlier novels.

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Other segments from the episode on July 13, 1999

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 13, 1999: Interview with Pat Barker; Interview with Leo Marks; Review of Ernest Hemingway's novel "True at First Light."

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