Double Vision

I felt this book was mis-described in the blurb. It's a very good read, but it doesn't quite do the things claimed for it; it does other great things instead. Particularly interesting is the exploration of how war is represented, particularly in photographic art. This widens out, as one of the chara......more

DOUBLE VISION (2003) centers on Stephen Sharkey, a war correspondent who has come to stay in his brother’s isolated holiday cottage. He has resigned from his job and plans to write a book on the representation of violence and our responses to it. There's also Kate Frobisher, widow of Sharkey’s war p......more

The book ends with a man and a woman separated by 19 or 20 years of age, acknowledging their love for each other. And the man recollecting the death of his fellow journalist and war correspondent in a war zone. This book has the delightful feel of the great British England added onto by the reading o......more

So I originally read this about 10 years ago for my undergrad, and they're trotting it out again for my postgrad and... holy moly, how perverted is this book?! We've done some work on the male gaze recently and maybe I've become overly sensitive, but almost every page was a comment on a woman's brea......more

I read this book for a class I'm taking, with the requirement to pay particular attention to point of view. And the point of view is interesting. Barker chooses third-person close for two primary characters, switching between them at well chosen places in the narration, and veers off into what seems......more