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

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The Black Hart is the gang’s main local drinking spot – not located more precisely that ‘near the station’, but by implication not far from Netta’s furnished rooms. first edition second impression from 1941 in Very good++ condition, no jacket, previous owner inscription and tiny markings on front and rear boards, its all in the pics, any questions please get in touch, paypal accepted.

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Because things had been going on too long, and he must get to Maidenhead and be peaceful and contented again. Apart from being a source of money and alcohol, George has another attraction for Netta: his friendship with Johnnie, who works for a theatrical agent.

Its dark and chilling qualities when it comes to wanting to execute a murder felt very Simenon-esque. On Christmas Day 1939 Patrick Hamilton began writing Hangover Square, a novel that adopts those agonising weeks and months as its backdrop and brings the reader as close as possible to the feeling of a society – a world – unable to arrest its slide into the abyss. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images Newspaper headlines on 1 September 1939; the United Kingdom declared war on Germany two days later.

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Hamilton was writing the novel throughout 1940, the year Hitler’s Blitzkrieg hit its stride, overrunning mainland Europe and later launching air-raids on London.It’s a world which Hamilton – who died of cirrhosis of the liver aged 58 in 1962 - knew at first hand. We have our noses shoved into the ineluctable caste system of looksism, which divides the human race into those who have looks and those who can only look. Anyway, bottom line is: Netta uses men as much as she is used by them, so let’s cut her some slack, eh? As a musician, Cregar was eager to perform the musical pieces on his own; however, Brahm insisted that he mime the piano playing. Cut to the concert hall, filling with flame and smoke, as George plays the last notes of his concerto.