Union Street & Blow Your House Down: Two Novels - Brossura

Barker, Pat

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ISBN 10: 0312240899 ISBN 13: 9780312240899

Casa editrice: Picador, 1999

Riassunto

Tells the stories of seven women and their families living in the financially distressed area of a northeastern industrial city in England; and, a psychopathic killer stalks prostitutes in England's industrial north

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L'autore:

Pat Barker is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Border Crossing. For her highly acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy, she was awarded the Guardian fiction prize and the Booker Prize. She lives in England.

Product Description:

"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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312240899
• ISBN 13: 9780312240899
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 420