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      Union Street

      by Pat Barker
      Published
      Sep 1983
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      'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES

      'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

      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.

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      Aug 1984 Ballantine ISBN 0345315014
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      May 1982 Little, Brown ISBN 0860682838
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      First Edition Sep 1983 Putnam ISBN 0399128808
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