The Man Who Wasn't There
160 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1989
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ISBN: 9780312275433
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 7 April 2001
Description
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? '
