Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
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'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters 'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. 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 twenty thousand streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, wasted dreams and lost desires.
'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters 'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. 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 twenty thousand streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, wasted dreams and lost desires.
Bol PartnerDit krachtige klassieke BBC-drama is een bewerking van de gelijknamige trilogie van de Britse auteur Patrick Hamilton. Het is een verhaal over onbeantwoorde liefde, met als decor de grauwe straten en pubs van Londen in de jaren '30 van de vorige eeuw. Centrale locatie is The Midnight Bell, een kroeg in de buurt van Euston Road. We volgen drie verschillende personages op hun moeizame zoektocht naar liefde: barkeeper Bob, die verliefd is op de straatarme tippelaarster Jenny; zijn collega Ella, die heen en weer wordt geslingerd tussen haar gevoelens voor een oudere, rijke man en haar heimelijke verlangen naar Bob; en Jenny, die door omstandigheden gedwongen is haar geld op straat te verdienen en steeds meer moeite heeft het hoofd boven water te houden.
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