false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg 176964 7 England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat. Everything is in short supply, and tempers are even shorter. Overwhelmed by the terrors and rigors of the Blitz, middle-aged Miss Roach has retreated to the relative safety and stupefying boredom of the suburban town of Thames Lockdon, where she rents a room in a boarding house run by Mrs. Payne. There the savvy, sensible, decent, but all-too-meek Miss Roach endures the dinner-table interrogations of Mr. Thwaites and seeks to relieve her solitude by going out drinking and necking with a wayward American lieutenant. Life is almost bearable until Vicki Kugelmann, a seeming friend, moves into the adjacent room. That&#8217;s when Miss Roach&#8217;s troubles really begin.<br> Recounting an epic battle of wills in the claustrophobic confines of the boarding house, Patrick Hamilton&#8217;s <i>The Slaves of Solitude</i>, with a delightfully improbable heroine, is one of the finest and funniest books ever written about the trials of a lonely heart. 1195361 1947 The Slaves of Solitude (New York Review Books Classics) total:110|5:50|4:47|3:11|2:1|1:1| 110 474 239 30 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 5 30 false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 06 06:43:23 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 04 17:56:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 5 2 false Thu Dec 06 15:04:17 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 10 08:16:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 4 2 false Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 12:12:32 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 12:33:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 5 0 false Wed May 20 20:34:57 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 20:31:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 5 0 false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 08:16:44 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 04:35:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 4 0 false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 11:54:18 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 12:04:43 -0700 2009
Hamilton reports conversation so precisely that one is surprised to find him sometimes careless in o...more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 5 1 false Thu Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 18 12:47:09 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 13:04:05 -0800 2009 Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky trilogy and Hangover Square, this is the first I would recommend because it has strong dose of humor to offset his typically grim narrative of characters sliding into an abyss of alcoholism and isola...more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 4 0 false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 15 14:42:17 -0800 2009 Fri May 08 12:26:36 -0700 2009
Hamilton's depiction of the antagonist, Mr. Thwaites, is one of the best and most pointed I've read. His painful pseudo-archaisms, his braying dispersal of unsolicited opinions, his compulsion to repeat and re-repeat various cliches and half-witticisms : anyone w...more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 4 0 false Fri Dec 21 04:30:27 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 04:30:52 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1304697 1845294157 9781845294151 4 1 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182631277m/1304697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1304697.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 4 0 false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 09:38:28 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 04:39:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 4 0 false Sun Jun 07 11:07:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 11:29:34 -0700 2009 176964 1590172205 9781590172209 105 28 4.31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172445065m/176964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176964.The_Slaves_of_Solitude 4 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 03:21:06 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 02:15:45 -0700 2008
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