
Hangover Square
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Narrated by:
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Piers Hampton
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By:
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Patrick Hamilton
About this listen
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 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.
©2016 Patrick Hamilton (P)2016 Little Brown Book GroupCritic Reviews
"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)
"If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man." (Nick Hornby)
I particularly liked the feel of what it is like to have horrible, awful 'friends' who only despise and hate you. The petty seeking of 'wins', the revenges, the dreadful status anxiety are all conveyed beautifully by the reader.
It really rewards close listening.
Such enjoyable depression and misery.
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Poor old Bone
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