Patrick Hamilton

Broschiertes Buch

Twopence Coloured

Beschreibung

Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels, to bring them to a new audience. Twopence Coloured, Hamilton's second novel, relishes in London - the 'vast, thronged, unknown, hooting, electric-lit, dark-rumbling metropolis'.

Autor

Patrick Hamilton was one of the most gifted and admired writers of his generation. His plays include Rope (1929), on which the Hitchcock thriller was based, and Gas Light (1939). Among his novels are The Midnight Bell, The Siege of Pleasure, The Plains of Cement, Twenty-thousand Streets Under the Sky, Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude and The West Pier. He died in 1962. The Sunday Telegraph said: 'His finest work can easily stand comparison with the best of this more celebrated contempories George Orwell and Graham Greene.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780349141602
• ISBN-10: 0349141606
• Artikelnr.: 52625774