Union Street & Blow Your House Down, Paperback/Pat Barker
Descriere
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 De Niro 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. About the Author 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.
Despre autor
Patricia Mary W. Barker, este o scriitoare și romancieră engleză. A câștigat multe premii pentru ficțiunea ei, care se concentrează pe teme de memorie, traumă, supraviețuire și recuperare. Este cunoscută pentru Trilogia Regeneration, publicată în anii 1990, și, mai recent, pentru o serie de cărți aranjate în timpul Războiului Troian, începând cu The Silence of the Girls în 2018.
