Book of the Month–November 2014
Regeneration by Pat Barker
In 1917, poet Sigfried Sassoon composed a letter to Parliament protesting the war. His letter was interpreted as a symptom of a nervous breakdown and he is diagnosed with shell-shock. Sassoon is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland for treatment of this condition. Army psychiatrist W.H.R. Rivers is assigned to Sassoon’s case. Rivers is a humane and compassionate doctor who is tormented by the suffering of his patients. He is also conflicted by his reluctance to treat patients so that they can return to a war he no longer supports.
Other patients in treatment include poet Wilfred Owen, Billy Prior, who suffers from mutism, and Anderson, a surgeon who is now unable to cope with the sight of blood.
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