Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

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 details

• Authors: Patrick Hamilton
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780349141473
• ISBN: 978-0-349-14147-3
• No. of pages: 640
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 197 mm x 52 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, Biographical fiction