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1) Union Street
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1983, ©1982
Language
English
Description
Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married, and already pregnant; Old Alice, welcoming her impending death; Muriel helplessly watching the...
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Union Street: 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."--Provided by publisher.
"Blow your house yown: Portrays the lives of women in industrial England--but these women are prostitutes, living in a northern...
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