Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Author(s): Patrick Hamilton
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.
Product Information
'One of our finest - and darkest - novelists' Observer
General Fields
- :
- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.372
- : 01 May 2004
- : 198mm X 129mm X 34mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 544
- : Paperback
- : Patrick Hamilton