Union Street & Blow Your House DownUnion 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 |
Contents
KELLY BROWN | 5 |
UNION STREET | 9 |
JOANNE WILSON | 65 |
LISA GODDARD | 98 |
MURIEL SCAIFE | 127 |
IRIS KING | 159 |
BLONDE DINAH | 198 |
ALICE BELL | 208 |
CHAPTER NINE | 285 |
CHAPTER TEN | 294 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 307 |
PART TWO | 313 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 315 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 322 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 326 |
PART THREE | 335 |
BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN | 239 |
PART ONE | 241 |
CHAPTER ONE | 243 |
CHAPTER TWO | 251 |
CHAPTER THREE | 260 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 265 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 269 |
CHAPTER SIX | 272 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 274 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 282 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 346 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 364 |
PART FOUR | 379 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | 381 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | 387 |
CHAPTER TWENTY | 399 |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE | 404 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO | 408 |