| Author/Contributor(s): | Barker, Pat |
| Publisher: | Picador USA |
| Date: | 03/15/1999 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The first and second novels by the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of the Ghost Road trilogy, now in one book.
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.