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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Patrick Hamilton

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky By Patrick Hamilton

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton


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Summary

The classic novel from the author of Rope and Hangover Square.

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Summary

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton

'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters

'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby

Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell.

The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a gin and pep. Around his obsessions, and Ella the barmaid's secret love for him, swirls the sleazy life of London in the 1930s. This is a world where people emerge from cheap lodgings in Pimlico to pour out their passions, hopes and despair in pubs and bars - a world of twenty thousand streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, wasted dreams and lost desires.

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Reviews

This brilliant classic breaks your heart while inducing aching laughter . . . Sheer genius. * Daily Mail *

About Patrick Hamilton

Patrick Hamilton was one of the most gifted and admired writers of his generation. His plays include Rope (1929), on which the Hitchcock thriller was based, and Gas Light (1939). Among his novels are The Midnight Bell, The Siege of Pleasure, The Plains of Cement, Twenty-thousand Streets Under the Sky, Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude and The West Pier. He died in 1962.

The Sunday Telegraph said: 'His finest work can easily stand comparison with the best of this more celebrated contempories George Orwell and Graham Greene.'

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GOR008510104
9780349141473
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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20170112
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