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 HornbyPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production,The Midnight Bell.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.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349141565Number of pages: 416Weight: 280 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 27 mm
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It captures the dynamics between the characters in a brilliantly observed way. It's captivating
Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist.
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Known for his immersive and playful historical fiction,British author Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool and was the film critic for the Independent from 1998 to 2013. His first novel,The Rescue Man,won the 2009 Authors'Club Best First Novel Award and his novel Curtain Call was chosen for the Waterstones Book Club. His other novels are Half of the Human Race,The Streets,Freya, Eureka and Our Friends in Berlin.
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