Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky PDF Patrick Hamilton

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Performing against the lurid illumination of the saloon bar, his cast of ordinary habitués is magnified into a troupe of crazed misfits, and the conventions of English life reveal themselves as dramatically foolish.

Patrick Hamilton is an expert guide to English social distinctions, with all their snobbish mimicry and fortified non-communication. He describes wonderfully well how the hyphenated upper classes, yelling at their dogs, splashing in their baths like captured seals, and writing their aloof letters in the third person (like broadcasters recounting an athletic event), remain so mysterious to the lesser breeds. Taking us out of the pub into the swarming streets of London, he gives us a social map of this malignant city as it was in the harsh commercial era of the 1920s and the early 1930s. His Marxism became a method of distinguishing between the avoidable and the unavoidable suffering of people, and, in so far as literature can change social conditio

• Book Name: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky pdf
• Author Name Patrick Hamilton
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 1987

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