Hangover Square

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Hangover Square
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Patrick Hamilton
Introduction by Anthony Quinn
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780349141565
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Abacus
Publication Date 4 August 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. London, 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.

Author Biography

Patrick Hamilton was one of the most gifted and admired writers of his generation. His plays include Rope (1929), on which the Hitchcock thriller was based, and Gas Light (1939). Among his novels are The Midnight Bell, The Siege of Pleasure, The Plains of Cement, Twenty-thousand Streets Under the Sky, Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude and The West Pier. He died in 1962. The Sunday Telegraph said: 'His finest work can easily stand comparison with the best of this more celebrated contempories George Orwell and Graham Greene.'

Reviews

It captures the dynamics between the characters in a brilliantly observed way. It's captivating -- Konnie Huq