Hangover Square - Softcover

Hamilton, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349141568 ISBN 13: 9780349141565

Publisher: Abacus, 2016

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Authors

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.'

Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the
Independent. His novels include The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, soon to be a feature film starring Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton; Freya, Eureka, Our Friends in Berlin and London, Burning. He also wrote the recent Liverpool memoir Klopp.

From the Back Cover

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349141568
• ISBN 13: 9780349141565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416