Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Autor Patrick Hamiltonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 ian 2017
'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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349141473
ISBN-10: 0349141479
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 134 x 197 x 52 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349141479
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 134 x 197 x 52 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
This brilliant classic breaks your heart while inducing aching laughter . . . Sheer genius.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky is a tale of obsession and betrayal that centres on a seedy pub in a run-down part of London. Bob the waiter skimps and saves and fantasises about writing a novel, until he falls for the pretty prostitute Jenny and blows it all. Kindly Ella, Bob's co-worker, adores Bob, but is condemned to enjoy nothing more than the attentions of the insufferable Mr Eccles; Jenny, out on the street, is out of love, hope, and money. We watch with pity and horror as these three vulnerable and yet compellingly ordinary people meet and play out bitter comedies of longing and frustration.
'His finest work can easily stand comparison with the best of this more celebrated contempories George Orwell and Graham Greene' Sunday Telegraph
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky is a tale of obsession and betrayal that centres on a seedy pub in a run-down part of London. Bob the waiter skimps and saves and fantasises about writing a novel, until he falls for the pretty prostitute Jenny and blows it all. Kindly Ella, Bob's co-worker, adores Bob, but is condemned to enjoy nothing more than the attentions of the insufferable Mr Eccles; Jenny, out on the street, is out of love, hope, and money. We watch with pity and horror as these three vulnerable and yet compellingly ordinary people meet and play out bitter comedies of longing and frustration.
'His finest work can easily stand comparison with the best of this more celebrated contempories George Orwell and Graham Greene' Sunday Telegraph