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Union Street & Blow Your House Down

"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.

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Pat Barker's first novel, UNION STREET, is a bleak chronicle of the lives--from youth to old age--of working-class women in the north of England. BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN looks at the crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper from the points of view of the prostitutes on whom he preyed, as well as of the murderer himself.

Author Bio

Pat Barker

The author of many novels, Pat Barker was born into the English working class. "As a child I was an omnivorous reader, and at the age of 10 or 11, I realized I wanted to write." She studied at the London School of Economics, taught history and politics, and had a son and a daughter. Taking a writing course with Angela Carter was the impetus she needed to complete her first novel, UNION STREET. Barker has become best known for her trilogy of novels about World War I.