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The Man Who Wasn't There

Published
Mar 1989
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
158

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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?'

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Sep 1990 Ballantine ISBN 0345369548
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May 1990 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0140127305
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Apr 2001 Picador ISBN 0312275439
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First Edition Mar 1989 Time Warner (UK) ISBN 0860688917
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