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This NYRB Classics volume collects Patrick Hamilton's three London novellas: The Midnight Bell, The Siege of Pleasure and The Plains of Cement. They follow Bob, a waiter saving to write a novel who falls for the prostitute Jenny, his co-worker Ella who loves him unreturned, and Jenny herself, broke and out of hope. Hamilton wrote the Hitchcock plays Gaslight and Rope, and his pub-set trilogy is prized for sharp characterization, grim comedy and quiet suspense. Readers who like bleak, character-driven British fiction between the wars rate it alongside Orwell's and Greene's London writing.
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Reviewers treat the trilogy as a recovered classic, praising Hamilton's ear for pub talk and his pity for ordinary failures. The Guardian called it «Bleak and brilliant. . . an authentic lost classic.» Most criticism centers on how unrelievedly sad the three stories are.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky collects three darkly humorous, atmospheric novellas of love and disappointment by Patrick Hamilton, the author of Gaslight and Rope. They are set in a run-down London pub after WWI. This edition is published by NYRB Classics.
The cast includes pub crawlers, prostitutes, lowlifes and plain losers who are looking for love, or just an ear to bend. The story centers on Bob the waiter, who saves his money and dreams of writing a novel until he falls for a prostitute named Jenny. Ella, his kindly co-worker, adores Bob but has only the attentions of the insufferable Mr. Eccles. Jenny is out of love, hope and money.
The novellas combine deft characterization, offbeat humor, unlikely compassion and raw suspense.
