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"Union Street," Pat Barker's first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are married to alcoholics, some are victims of abuse; one is old and near death, another is still a child but has the experience of an adult; all are struggling to survive. First published in 1982, it was made into the film" Stanley & Iris" by MGM in 1989, starring Robert DeNiro and Jane Fonda "Blow Your House Down," Barker's second novel, also portrays the lives of women in industrial England--but these women are prostitutes, living in a northern England city that is stalked by a vicious, Jack the Ripper-style serial killer who is singling out women with nowhere else to go.

Book details

• Full title: Union Street and Blow Your House Down
• Author: Pat Barker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780312240899
• ISBN: 0312240899
• ID: 11366995
• Publisher: Picador
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 137 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: March 1999

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