Round 17: Tossup 10
In a novel set during this period, a doctor remembers his father giving speech therapy to a man who stutters “Boys are a mistake.” A 2014 novel set after this period recounts Frances’s arrest for throwing her shoes at a politician in this period, during which she decided not to run away with her lesbian lover out of a “sense of bravery.” The closeted bank clerk Paul tries to write a biography of a man who died during this period in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child. In a series set during this period, Billy Prior is treated by the real psychologist W. H. R. Rivers at Craiglockhart Hospital. The Ghost Road and Regeneration are Pat Barker novels set during this period that fictionalize the author of The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. For 10 points, in what period were poems like “Counter-Attack” written by Siegfried Sassoon? ■END■
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | Conv. % | Neg % | Avg. Buzz |
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