Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy

by Patrick Hamilton

Book Overview

NYRB Classics presents 3 darkly humorous, atmospheric novellas of love and disappointment, set in a run-down London pub after WWI--from the author of the Hitchcock classics Gaslight and Rope.

"Bleak and brilliant. . . an authentic lost classic." --The Guardian

Featuring a Dickensian cast of pubcrawlers, prostitutes, lowlifes, and just plain losers who are looking for love--or just an ear to bend--Hamilton's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590172566
• ISBN13: 9781590172568
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 7.9"