Author | Nell Dunn |
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Illustrator | Susan Benson |
Language | English |
Publisher | MacGibbon & Kee |
Publication date | 1963 |
Publication place | UK |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 110 pp (Hardcover edition) & 112 pp (paperback edition) |
OCLC | 17230966 |
Up the Junction is a 1963 collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction.[1]
The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encounters, births, deaths and back-street abortion provided a view of life that was previously unrecognised by many people. The book won the 1963 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.