Through a Glass Darkly by Nigel Jones
This is a biography of Patrick Hamilton, the author of "Rope", "Gas Light" and "Hangover Square", who was one of the most gifted and admired writers of his generation. Born in Sussex in 1904, he moved shortly afterwards with his parents to Hove, where he passed his formative years. His first novel, "Craven House", was published in 1925 and within a few years he had established a wide readership for himself. Two plays, "Rope" (on which Hitchcock based his film) and "Gas Light", brought him commercial success and his high point as a novelist was reached with "The Slaves of Solitude" and "Hangover Square". His reputation seemed assured, but it was overshadowed by personal setbacks and an increasing preoccupation with drink. Yet in spite of these pressures he was able to produce some of his best work, in which an underlying sense of loss and isolation is felt beneath his comic creations. He died in 1962.
Nigel Jones began his journalistic career for the Cambridge Evening News. He worked on radio and television in London and Austria and has written for the Sunday Times and the Guardian. He is currently the Deputy Editor of BBC History Magazine and leads tours of the Western Front in the footsteps of the war poets. His previous works include the collaboration, Hitler Triumphant (Greenhill Books), The War Walk, a study of the Great War, Hitler's Heralds, on the roots of Nazi Germany, and a biography of the playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton, Through a Glass Darkly. He lives in Sussex with his partner and three children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780356197012 |
| ISBN 10 | 0356197018 |
| Title | Through a Glass Darkly |
| Author | Nigel Jones |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1991-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 356 |
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