by Patrick Hamilton · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141185897
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«Hangover Square» is the crime novel by Patrick Hamilton, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In the London of 1939, in the bars of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone drags an obsession with Netta, a cold, disdainful and fascinating woman. Lost in alcohol, George goes through episodes in which something clicks in his head and he understands that he must kill her. The novel captures a decadent world of pubs and boarding houses on the brink of war.
The work was originally published in 1941 and the present edition belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
Recommended for readers of crime fiction and British fiction set in pre-Second World War London.
Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley, and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the poor, as well as an acerbic black humour. Doris Lessing wrote in The Times in 1968: "Hamilton was a marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected".
