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Life classPat Barker

Life class

260 pagesFirst published 200812 editions
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In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville — himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter — makes it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist's model. As spring turns to summer, Paul and Elinor each reach a crisis in their relationships until finally, in the first few days of war, they turn to each other.Paul's new life as a volunteer for the…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionPenguin Books, Limited20192569780241986493
EditionPenguin Books20122639780241963753
AudiobookAudioGO201019781602839939
EbookPenguin Group UK2010—9780141906416
EditionAnchor Books20093119780307387806
EditionUlverscroft Large Print Books20083609781847821157
EbookKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2008—9780307472441
HardcoverDoubleday20083209780385524353
AudiobookBBC Audiobooks America2008—9781602833579
EditionBlackstone Audiobooks2008—9780792753247
EditionPenguin Books, Limited20082569780141019475
EditionHamish Hamilton20072489780241142974
FictionHospitalsHuman figure in artPhysicians as artistsPsychological aspectsWorld War, 1914-1918New York Times reviewedPhysicians, fiction