{"product_id":"9780312240899","title":"Union Street and Blow Your House Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnion Street\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003ci\u003e Stanley \u0026amp; Iris\u003c\/i\u003e by MGM in 1989, starring Robert DeNiro and Jane Fonda \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlow Your House Down\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024256549104,"sku":"9780312240899","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312240899_p0.jpg?v=1763759686","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312240899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}