Hangover Square Av Patrick Hamilton

<p><b>The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.</b><br><br><b>''I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific'' Sarah Waters</b><br><br><b>''If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man'' Nick Hornby</b><br><br><b>Patrick Hamilton''s novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne''s new dance theatre production, <i>The Midnight Bell</i>.</b><br><br>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.</p>