Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics)

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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. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Author(s): Heawood, Sophie, Binding: Hardback, Date of Publication: 16/07/2020, Pagination: 272 pages, Series: N/A, Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd, Published By: Vintage Publishing, Book Classification: London, Greater London, ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781787330511 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. 4 cm

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