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by Patrick Hamilton · Random House UK · tapa blanda · 511 pages
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Veinte mil calles bajo el cielo es una trilogía que retrata la vida de tres residentes de Londres en la década de 1930. Bob, un camarero con aspiraciones de escritor, se enamora de Jenny, una prostituta, mientras que Ella, una camarera, anhela el afecto de Bob. A través de sus historias interconectadas, Hamilton explora temas de obsesión, traición y las duras realidades de la vida en la ciudad.

Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley, and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the poor, as well as an acerbic black humour. Doris Lessing wrote in The Times in 1968: "Hamilton was a marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected".