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"Even the living were only ghosts in the making. You learned to ration your commitment to them."
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The Ghost RoadMurder is only killing in the wrong place. — The Ghost Road
"Murder is only killing in the wrong place."
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The Ghost Road is a war novel by English writer Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize. It is the third volume of a trilogy that follows the fortunes of shell-shocked British army officers towards the end of the First World War. The other books in the trilogy are Regeneration and The Eye in the Door.
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