by Patrick Hamilton · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780701207519
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«Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky» is Patrick Hamilton's trilogy, published by Random House UK in paperback (511 pages, in English).
Three interlinked stories portray the lives of three Londoners in the 1930s: Bob, a waiter with literary aspirations; Ella, a pub barmaid in love with Bob; and Jenny, a prostitute who bursts into their lives. Hamilton describes obsession, unrequited desire and betrayal in interwar London.
Subtitled «A London Trilogy», the work was originally published in 1935; this 1987 edition includes an introduction by Michael Holroyd.
For readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century British classics, with an interest in interwar London and psychological narrative.
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".
