{"product_id":"up-the-junction-a-virago-modern-classic","title":"Up The Junction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS MEMORIAL PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Her art is ignited by voice, as you hear it, is unquestionable' ALI SMITH, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Distinctive\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e pared-down style' DAVID EVANS,\u003ci\u003e INDEPENDENT \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Unflinching look at the lives of working-class women' \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, have few parallels in contemporary writing. The exuberant, uninhibited, disparate world she found in the tired old streets and under the railway arches is recaptured in these closely linked sketches; and the result is pure alchemy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this novel, we witness clip-joint hustles, petty thieving, candid sexual encounters, casual birth and casual death. She has a superb gift for capturing colloquial speech and the characters observed in these pages convey that caustic, ironic, and compassionate feeling for life, in which a turn of phrase frequently contains startling flashes of poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBattersea, that teeming wasteland of brick south of the Thames, has found its poet in Nell Dunn and \u003ci\u003eUp the Junction \u003c\/i\u003eis her touchingly truthful and timeless testimonial to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32125423747155,"sku":"9781844089826","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781844089826.jpg?v=1771918245","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/up-the-junction-a-virago-modern-classic","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}