Osher Lifelong Learning Institute - UC San Diego

Tuesday 1:00 p.m.
Modern and Contemporary Authors
Classroom 128
Facilitator: Phyllis Rosenbaum
During the winter quarter, the class will read
Regeneration and The Eye in the Door, the first
two books of Pat Barker’s trilogy of WWI. These
novels illuminate “with compassion and insight the
toll the war exacted from Britain’s combatants and
the world” (New York Times Book Review). The
New Yorker praises Pat Barker for enlarging “the
scope of the contemporary English novel” and calls
Regeneration “an inspiring book that balances
conscience and the vitality of change against a
collapsing world.” For her impressive trilogy, Pat
Barker was awarded the Booker Prize. The class
Tuesday 1:00 p.m.
will be reading the Plume edition of both novels.
The ISBN for Regeneration is 0-452-27007-3 and
the ISBN for The Eye in the Door is 0-452-27272-9.
January 8: Read Regeneration, Parts 1 and 2.
January 22: Finish Regeneration.
February 5: Read The Eye in the Door, Part I.
February 19: The Eye in the Door, Part II, through
Chap. 13, p. 175.
March 5: Finish The Eye in the Door.
Best Short Stories
Classroom 128
Instructor: Barbara Greer
The text for this series, continued from the
previous quarter, will be The Scribner Anthology
of Contemporary Short Fiction, second edition,
ISBN 10-1-4165-3227-7. These interesting stories
by great authors will be illustrated on the board. A
repast will be served mid-class.
January 15: “Lust” by Susan Minot and “Boys” by
Rick Moody
January 29: “The Management of Grief” by Bharati
Mukherjee
February 12: “Female Trouble” by Antonya Nelson
February 26: “The Translation” by Joyce Carol Oates
March 12: “The Things They Carried” by Tim
O’Brien
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