Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky |
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| Author:
| Hamilton, Patrick |
| Introduction by:
| Holroyd, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4464-2650-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | CCV Digital |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | AUD $22.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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.