Hangover Square (Fiction - general)

by Patrick Hamilton

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A pitch-black comedy set in London overshadowed by the looming threat of the Second World War, Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square includes an introduction by J.B. Priestley in Penguin Modern Classics. 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 realizes, without a doubt, that he must kill her. In the darkly comic Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton brilliantly evokes a seedy,...Read more
  • ISBN10 1933372060
  • ISBN13 9781933372068
  • Publish Date 1 January 2006 (first published 19 June 1972)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Europa Editions
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 334
  • Language English