Hangover Square
$20.69
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2016
Summary
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 brilliantl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349141565 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349141568 |
| Author: | Patrick Hamilton, Anthony Quinn |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 273g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 27mm |
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It captures the dynamics between the characters in a brilliantly observed way. It’s captivating
It captures the dynamics between the characters in a brilliantly observed way. It’s captivating – Konnie Huq
About The Author
Patrick Hamilton
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.’
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