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Blow Your House Down Information
820 words, approx. 3 pages
 Blow Your House Down is the second novel by Pat Barker. Published in 1984, the novel follows the lives of a number of prostitutes working in a northern English city at a time when a serial killer of prostitutes is haunting the area. The main focus is on...


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 The Washington Post
Just Try to Blow THIS House Down
04/08/2001: 665 words, approx. 2 pages The Old Stone House in Georgetown, believed to be one of the oldest structures in the District, stands stoutly and humbly on M Street in a neighborhood famous for its megawatt braggadocio, bistros and BMWs. The property on which it stands was purchased in...
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 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
2 trumpets blow the house down.(NEWS)
11/14/2003: 495 words, approx. 2 pages Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer Trumpet concertos are scarce, while those for two trumpets are a genuine oddity. This gave special interest to the concert by the Minnesota Orchestra at Orchestra Hall on Thursday night, a program that included the premiere of...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ann Ardis
4,560 words, approx. 15 pages
 Ardis is an American critic and educator. In the following essay, she discusses the effect of Barker's Blow Your House Down on her college literature classes and examines the ways in which the novel addresses various feminist themes.
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Critical Essay by Angela Mcrobbie
277 words, approx. 1 pages
 Blow Your House Down lacks, I think, both spirit and direction. It is set in the industrial North where a series of murders similar to those by the Ripper are being carried out. The novel traces the responses of those women who feel most under threat. It's 'gritty', 'tough' and 'hard-hitting' in the tradition of much British Sixties realist writing. Barker certainly avoids patronising the women she describes. They are, without exception, poor, and prostitutio...


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