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  <title><![CDATA[Union Street (Virago Modern Classics)]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1982</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pat Barker]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 24 09:14:14 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was like <em>Dubliners</em>, if <em>Dubliners</em> was written in the 1980s about English women living in poverty in the 1970s, and it didn't suck. <br/><br/>Ahaha, Joyce fans, shoot me now. But there's no love lost between me and James Joyce.<br/><br/>Moving on... it was very interesting structurally. The w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3453956">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very gritty novel with a different woman in the same street telling her story in each chaptor. Fairly bleak and of its time, the story comes full circle in a well-written female perspective on a harsh world. ]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[If you like Vera Drake movie or are interested in realities of life in C20th industrial England. ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first discovered the works of Pat Barker when reading her Regeneration trilogy which dealt with the difficulties of troops in WW1 suffering from the then unknown problem of shell-shock.<br/>This book is set sometime in the 1950s/60s (I think, it may even be the early 70's) and deals with the hars...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3062380">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i first read this collection of short stories in high school and i've been obsessed with them ever since.  found a used copy in a secondhand bookstore on charing cross road.  came home practically bouncing up and down.  it was just as i remembered - incredible, beautifully written stories about hard...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27566393">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 12 06:44:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting book. Each chapter dealing with a different girl or woman, all living on the same working-class, northern street in the 1970s. They lead lives of deprivation, hardship, poverty, abuse but are shown to be strong despite it all, keeping their families together and providing for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12317234">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 11 15:40:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 21 14:50:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Powerful, compelling, heartbreaking. Overused words maybe, but trying to do justice to this book is difficult. At times I found this book hard to read because it was so raw and because you just know that women are still living lives like this. The characters are beautifully drawn, grabbing you off t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59323892">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[book group, Julia, Natalie]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book at the legendary Powell's Book Store in Portland in 2003.  Just now read it and loved it.  Stories of the very difficult lives of several different women living in poverty and trying to make ends meet and dreaming of raising their standard of living.  Not a book to read when you w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30445045">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 31 13:13:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 31 13:14:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never would have known about this book if I hadn't had to read if for a class my sophomore year of college.  It is a book I revisit and re-read often and it still gets to me every time.  I might not have liked it as much if we hadn't had wonderful conversations in that class and if I hadn't devote...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14189047">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 24 11:46:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 24 12:37:42 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of tales about a group of storng working class women in England.  It's dark and gritty and there is a certain amount of depair you feel while reading it but it's really good.  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31066318]]></url>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[started off a little weird, but got really really good.  real life, one of my favorite favorite authors]]></body>
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