{"product_id":"union-street-by-pat-barker","title":"'Union Street' by Pat Barker","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\"\u003ePat Barker’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003eUnion Street\u003c\/em\u003e is a sequence of interconnected stories following seven working-class women living in the same unnamed northern English community. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublished in 1982, this work very much reflected her sense of style carrying her forward; unsentimental, close to the body and concerned deeply with class. Each of the women are at a pivotal point in their lives, different from each other, but they overlap through work, sex, motherhood, unemployment, illness, domestic violence, ageing. Everything really.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe issues are big, but the scale of the work is kept domestic to have a cumulative effect.  Effective to show how class filters through into what kinds of futures can be imagined at all. The writing is plain, hard and often funny in exactly the places where sentimentality would be easiest. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVirago Press, London, 1982; reprint 1984. Paperback. Light-to-moderate shelf wear, rubbing and creasing to covers and edges; small edge knocks and age-toning. Internally clean; binding firm. Good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46387015483475,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-20T151326.999.png?v=1789881727","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/union-street-by-pat-barker","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}