
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn London 1939 & in the grimy publands of Earls Court George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation Netta is cool contemptuous & hopelessly desirable to George George is adrift in a drunken hell except in his 'dead' moments when something goes click in his head & 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 & boozing philosophers immortalising the slang & conversational tone of a whole generation & capturing the premonitions of doom that pervaded London life in the months before the war