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Barker
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Union Street (Virago Modern Classics) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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272 |
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1987-12 |
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0860682838 |
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Trafalgar Square |
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0.49 pounds |
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0.63 x 4.92 x 7.76 inches |
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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 decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.
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