GORSE TRILOGY, THE - The West Pier; Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse; Unknown Assailant - Softcover

Patrick Hamilton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0948238348 ISBN 13: 9780948238345

Publisher: Black Spring Press Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

A satirical picture of a small group of Reading residents and a study of the British class system and snobbery. Hamilton's world is peopled with sad, brooding characters trailing on the edge of society, leading bleak, loveless lives. The author also wrote Hangover Square.

About this title

Book Description:

Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels for a new audience. In The Gorse Trilogy, Patrick Hamilton creates one of fiction's most captivating anti-heroes.

About the Author:

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.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Spring Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0948238348
• ISBN 13: 9780948238345
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326