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Patrick Hamilton was one of the most gifted and admired writers of his generation. Born in Hassocks, Sussex, in 1904, he and his parents moved a short while later to 12 First Avenue Hove, where he spent his early years. Hamilton was educated at Holland House School in Hove. After a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist in his early ...
Jan 2, 2008 · Patrick Hamilton was a successful writer in England from the 1930s to the 1950s. He made most of his considerable income from successful stage plays but it is his best novels that have survived and received serious critical attention. He also wrote radio plays for the BBC and screenplays for both British and American film producers.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. He was born Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton in the Sussex village of Hassocks, near Brighton, to writer parents. Due to his father's alcoholism and financial ineptitude, the family spent much of Hamilton's childhood living in boarding houses in Chiswick and ...
(Anthony Walter) Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) English novelist and playwright, whose best-known works include Rope (1929) and Gas Light (1938); both have been filmed many times for the cinema and for television. Patrick Hamilton died of cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure.
Provides an appraisal of Hamilton's major novels as well as his successful stage plays, Rope and Gaslight. This title draws on the views of a variety of commentators, including Michael Holroyd, Doris Lessing, Claud Coburn and many others as well as considering how Hamilton's political beliefs affected his work.
Hamilton's success as a novelist continued with The Midnight Bell (1929), The Siege of Pleasure (1932) and The Plains of Cement (1934). This trilogy - describing the colliding lives of a barman, a barmaid and a harlot in London's West End, and partly inspired by Hamilton's obsessive affair with a prostitute - was later issued as Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky (1935).
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