Hangover Square

Name: Hangover Square
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SKU: 9780349141565
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By Patrick Hamilton

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Summary

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton follows the story of George Harvey Bone, a troubled man in 1939 London grappling with a mental disorder that causes him to experience blackouts. As he navigates a turbulent world of failed ambitions and unrequited love for a callous woman named Netta, readers are drawn into a vivid portrayal of psychological complexity and the looming backdrop of an impending war. This haunting narrative explores themes of obsession, despair, and the thin line between sanity and madness.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate intense psychological dramas set in a richly detailed pre-war London. This narrative offers a gripping exploration into the struggles of a troubled man caught between the worlds of sanity and madness, with captivating character development and a tense, suspenseful atmosphere.

Hangover Square

A pitch-black comedy set in London overshadowed by the looming threat of the Second World War, Hangover Square is a true classic.

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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.

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Hangover Square is lauded for its nuanced portrayal of complex character dynamics, offering a captivating narrative that delves deeply into the intricacies of human relationships.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349141565

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Abacus

Contributors:

Introduction by Anthony Quinn

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 416

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About the Author

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.'