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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 ISBN13 9780345315014 ISBN10 0345315014
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      May 1982 Little, Brown ISBN13 9780860682837 ISBN10 0860682838
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      Jan 1990 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345014276 ISBN10 0345014278
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      Mar 1999 Picador ISBN13 9780312240899 ISBN10 0312240899
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      First Edition Sep 1983 Putnam ISBN13 9780399128806 ISBN10 0399128808
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      Oct 2016 Little, Brown ISBN13 9780349009223 ISBN10 0349009228
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      Oct 2016 Virago ISBN10 B01J24WHBO
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