Border Crossing (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Pat Barker
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2000
- Setting: Northumberland, England
- Principal Characters: Tom Seymour, Lauren Seymour, Danny Peters, Martha Pitt, Bernard Greene, Angus MacDonald
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Parents and children, Abused persons, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, Child abuse, Domestic violence, England or English people, Violence, Fathers, Identity, Boys, Juvenile delinquency, 2000’s
- Locales: England
In Border Crossing Pat Barker returns to the complex urban themes of her first two books, Union Street (1982) and Liza’s England (1986, originally titled The Century’s Daughter). In those novels, she told harrowing tales of the intersecting lives of lower-class women in decaying inner cities. Barker portrayed their struggles against poverty and abuse, and she focused on the love and community forged between generations of women. Border Crossing portrays a similar world through the lens of a middle-aged man, a psychologist whose specialty is working...
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