Union Street & Blow Your House Down

Autori

• Pat Barker

Parametri

• Letteratura britannica
• Narrativa

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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 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 FondaBlow 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.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1999

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