· Night And The City is a crime novel masterpiece by the unsung genius of 20th century literature, Gerald Kersh. As always, his words shine. Nobody describes the look or personality of characters, the emotion and the atmosphere of the times, or the troubles and ailments of humanity and the hearts that are crushed or broken like Kersh, and this book is no www.doorway.ru by: 3. · Night and the City by Kersh, Gerald. ibooks, Incorporated. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Night And The City is a classic work of social-realist fiction that captures the vibrant yet seedy underbelly of London between the world wars. Its author Gerald Kersh was high-profile, prolific and hugely popular at his peak, but would later drift into hardship and /5(22).
Night and the City by Kersh, Gerald. ibooks, Incorporated. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. The editor of this edition of Night and City is Paul Duncan, who is currently putting the finishing touches to his biography of Gerald Kersh. He is the series editor for Pocket Essentials, for which he has written books on Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Film Noir and Noir Fiction. Genre. Gerald Kersh was born in Teddington-on-Thames, near London, and, like so many writers, quit school to take on a series of jobs -- salesman, baker, fish-and-chips cook, nightclub bouncer, freelance newspaper reporter and at the same time was writing his first two novels. In , his third published novel, Night and the City, hurled him.
In , his third published novel, Night and the City, hurled him into the front ranks of young British writers. Twenty novels later Kersh created his personal masterpiece, Fowler's End, regarded by many as one of the outstanding novels of the century. He also, throughout his long career, wrote more than short stories and over 1, articles. Night and the City is the third novel by British author Gerald Kersh, published in It is a crime thriller set in s London but also deals with social realism themes in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Night And The City is a crime novel masterpiece by the unsung genius of 20th century literature, Gerald Kersh. As always, his words shine. Nobody describes the look or personality of characters, the emotion and the atmosphere of the times, or the troubles and ailments of humanity and the hearts that are crushed or broken like Kersh, and this book is no exception.
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