num_pages: 0
description: Harry Fabian is a ponce, a Flash Harry in an expensive suit, a cockney wide boy who adopts American tones and talks big, yet will never make it to the top. He operates in the Soho of the 1930s, a metropolitan tangle of dodgy geezers, prostitutes, spivs and strong-arm men. Twice filmed, Night and the City is a seminal low-life novel, which presents a vivid glimpse of a lost London. It also marks the return of a lost London author, Gerald Kersh, a maverick character whose life was as colourful as those of his most flamboyant creations.
language: English
title: Night and the City
titlecomplete: Night and the City
characters: Harry Fabian
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, British Literature, Noir, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 266
publisher: Simon and Schuster