by Patrick Hamilton · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099288657
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«Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky» is Patrick Hamilton's novelistic trilogy published by Vintage in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Set in 1930s London, the work follows characters moving between cheap boarding houses in Pimlico and the pubs where their passions, hopes and disappointments intersect. Hamilton combines rawness and humour to paint a portrait of the city marked by loneliness, compassion and hopelessness.
The work, originally published in 1935, comprises The Midnight Bell, The Siege of Pleasure and The Plains of Cement.
For readers of classic fiction and British literature with a strong London setting.
Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley, and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the poor, as well as an acerbic black humour. Doris Lessing wrote in The Times in 1968: "Hamilton was a marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected".
