The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by
Anthony Quinn. 'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he
was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his
novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from
Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is
your man' Nick HornbyLondon, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls
Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation.
Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George
is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when
something goes click in his head and he realises, without a doubt, that
he must kill her. In the darkly comic Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton
brilliantly evokes a seedy, fog-bound world of saloon bars, lodging
houses and boozing philosophers, immortalising the slang and
conversational tone of a whole generation and capturing the premonitions
of doom that pervaded London life in the months before the war.
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
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