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London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earl's 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 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.
'A masterly novel . . . you can almost smell the gin' Keith Waterhouse, Spectator
London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earl's 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 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.
'A masterly novel . . . you can almost smell the gin' Keith Waterhouse, Spectator
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.'
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780349141565 |
| ISBN-10: | 0349141568 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hamilton, Patrick |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 199 x 128 x 38 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Patrick Hamilton |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.08.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,328 kg |
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.'
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780349141565 |
| ISBN-10: | 0349141568 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hamilton, Patrick |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 199 x 128 x 38 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Patrick Hamilton |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.08.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,328 kg |
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