The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton, David Lodge (Introduction)
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(Paperback)
- Pub. Date: February 2007
- 256pp
- Sales Rank: 191,038
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2007
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Format: Paperback, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 191,038
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- ISBN-13: 9781590172209
- ISBN: 1590172205
Synopsis
This wartime story of loneliness and homeless peole is set in an English boarding-house run by a thrifty widow. The effects of war on this isolated group--particularly the entrance of an American serviceman into lonely Miss Roach's life--are aptly told.
Biography
Patrick Hamilton (1904—1962) was born into a literary family and became active in the theater at a young age. He was a prolific writer, both of fiction and for the stage, and a notorious alcoholic. Among his most famous novels are Hangover Square and Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (forthcoming from NYRB Classics).
David Lodge is the author of several novels, including Author, Author, Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Paradise News, and Therapy. He has also written many works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays. He lives in Birmingham, England.
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