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Hamilton, Patrick, 1904 March 17-1962.
Subjects
City dwellers -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Hamilton, Patrick, 1904 March 17-1962.
City dwellers -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Twenty
thousand
streets
under
the
sky
: a
London
trilogy
/ by Patrick Hamilton ; introduction by Susanna Moore.
by
Hamilton, Patrick, 1904 March 17-1962.
New York Review Books, 2008, c1987.
Call #:
FICTION HAM
Subjects
City dwellers -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
London
(England) -- Fiction.
London
(England) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Series
New York Review Books classics.
ISBN:
9781590172568 (trade pbk. alk. paper)
1590172566 (trade pbk. alk. paper)
Alternate title:
20,000
streets
under
the
sky
Description:
511 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"1st published in Great Britain by Constable & Co. Ltd, 1935"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
The midnight bell -- The siege of pleasure -- The plains of Cement.
Summary:
"In
Twenty
Thousand
Streets
Under
the
Sky
, barmaid Ella nurses a silent passion for fellow-waiter Bob; Bob is infatuated with a prostitute named Jenny; and the unctuous Mr. Eccles has designs on Ella. A pub in a run-down section of prewar
London
is at the center of this three-part drama of three lonely people whose lives are set on irrevocable paths of tragedy by poverty, greed, and - above all - the undeniable need for love. Hamilton is remarkably attuned to the subtleties of desire and disdain as he details Bob's descent into obsession, Jenny's fall from innocent housemaid to jaded manipulator, and Ella's dignified struggles to overcome her mean circumstances. Each of these stories enhances the complexity and richness of the others and shows that, for Hamilton, life presents no villains, no heroes, only humans engaged in the common and never-ending struggle for fulfillment. "--Publisher description.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
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Adult Fiction
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