Patrick Hamilton
Paperback | Pages: 334 pages Rating: 4.16 | 3829 Users | 378 Reviews
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| Title | : | Hangover Square |
| Author | : | Patrick Hamilton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 334 pages |
| Published | : | 2006 by Europa Editions (first published 1941) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Mystery |
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Hamilton captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frustrated British man in this WWII-era novel. London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.Define Books In Pursuance Of Hangover Square
| Original Title: | Hangover Square |
| ISBN: | 1933372060 (ISBN13: 9781933372068) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | George Harvey Bone, Netta Longdon, Peter (Hangover Square), Mickey (Hangover Square), Johnnie Littlejohn, Eddie Carstairs |
| Setting: | London, England,1939(United Kingdom) Brighton, England,1939(United Kingdom) |
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In my view, this is the most underrated, most excellent book I have come across for years. I read it as part of a book club, none of us had ever heard of it before including two members who had done English degrees [I, myself did English A level and yet had never heard of Patrick Hamilton!].What ever you do DON'T read the introduction which gives the plot away and therefore really spoils the book [witnessed by those members of our book group who did do this, although they did still love the bookA masterpiece its own right, Hangover Square is the dark young cousin to Patrick Hamiltons more mature The Slaves of Solitude. If youve read one, you should read the other. (If you havent read either, you should!) They share similar themes but theyre markedly different - reverse images of each other, even. One is a dry comedy with tragic elements; the other is a dark tragedy with comic elements. Both focus on the struggles of underdog protagonists in suffocating environments, but The Slaves of
I have to thank Tosh and Kimley for leading me to this book. Their reviews told me it was a must read, and it certainly was. It went down like water but tasted like stale beer and gin. Reading it was like impotently watching a dear friend self-destruct - compelling and harrowing. Now it doesn't sound like I should be thanking them - stale beer, self-destruction, what? Gee thanks. But it's written so well...
Dear Patrick Hamilton,I'm just not that into you. Yeah, our first meeting was magnificent, transcendent, life-altering even! But you know what? I was drunk. I mean, really really shithammered, and yeah, so were you.... At our awkward follow-up date, I was pleased to note that you really weren't bad looking, but our conversation stalled a few minutes in, and neither one of us tried hard to save it. Maybe if I'd gotten through those initial long awkward pauses and choked down more sake, things
Patrick Hamilton's novels focus on those on the margins of life - the world of seedy bedsits, pubs and near poverty. George Harvey Bone spends his time in Earls Court, often meaning to make a new start of things, but drawn to the unpleasant and vicious Netta Longdon. For her part, Netta is a vacuous, pretty and lazy woman, who sponges off men for money and has a half hearted ambition to make it in films. When she first meets George (who she calls 'Bone') she imagines he is rich; once she learns
He was sane enough. If you didnt count the dead moods, he was sane enough. In fact he was probably too sane, too normal. Hangover Square is a darkly comical, rarely sober, atmospheric trip through the streets and pubs of prewar London.Despite this book being on my radar for many years, it never made its way into my hands; probably because it was neither an exciting new release, nor a quite-famous-enough classic for me to make it a priority. But the release of this 75th Anniversary Edition made
Just because I mostly hated reading this doesnt mean I cant give it 4 stars. There are two movies I saw recently (both recommended), Rosetta, a Belgian movie, and Keane, an American indie. Both of them are completely claustrophobic, the camera is jammed up against the main character all the time, were in their faces or hanging over their shoulders the whole time, there might be ten seconds here or there where Rosetta or Keane arent in the shot, but that will be because were looking through their
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