Union Street
Barker, Pat, 1943-1982
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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 is welcoming her impending death whilst Muriel helplessly watches the decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.
Main title:
Union Street / Pat Barker.
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Imprint:
London : Virago, 1982.
Collation:
265 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Now filmed as Stanley and Iris.Originally published: 1982.
ISBN:
08606828389780860682837 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.9'14GF
Local class:
FAFPBK
Language:
English
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BRN:
353560
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