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Double Vision from Pat Barker, a gripping novel about the consequences of violence on the journalists and artists who've dedicated themselves to representing itIn the aftermath of September 11, reeling from the consequences of reporting from NEW YORK, two British journalists, a writer, Stephen Sharkey, and a photographer, Ben Frobisher, part ways. Stephen, facing the almost simultaneous discovery that his wife is having an affair, returns to England shattered; he divorces and quits his job. Ben returns to his vocation. He follows the war on terror to Afghanistan which is killed. Stephen retreats to a cottage in the country to create a book about violence, and what he sees as the reporting journalist's or photographer's complicity in it; this can be a book that will build in large part on Ben's writing and photography. Ben's widow, Kate, a sculptor, lives nearby, and as she and Stephen learn about each other their world speedily shrinks, in pleasing but also disturbing ways; Stephen's maid, with whom he has begun an affair, was once lovers with Kate's new studio assistant, an odd local man named Peter. As these connections become clear, Peter's strange behavior around Stephen and Kate starts to take on threatening implications. The sinister events that take place in this small town, up to now from the theaters of war Stephen has retreated from, will force him to do something instinctively, violently, and to face his most painful revelations about himself.
