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

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Los Angeles Times: "as a character study and social portrait of the seedier side of London life in the 1930s, the book is a marvel." If it’s not about a very particular social milieu (Earl’s Court seediness, 1939 – the war approaches) or mid-level alcoholism, or mental illness, this novel is about the grim truths of looksism. The only think which Netta has going is her looks, and we are given to understand that she’s a total wow, it’s not just George that thinks so. 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. Human beauty, beloved, adored, feared even, lusted after – the 9s go out with the 9s, the 7s with the 7s, it’s a universal rule, except that the ugly men have discovered that if they make enough money then 4s can go out with 8s or even 9s. But do looks make you happy? We who are without them fervently hope they don’t and then feel mean for thinking such thoughts. Maybe that’s why the myth of Marilyn is so cherished – there was a fabulous looker who was one mixed up shook up girl. The sufferings of George Harvey Bone in his complete prostration before Netta’s beauty reminded me hatefully of periods in my own life I would be happy to have removed by the device in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Ugh. Why must he kill Netta? Because things had been going on too long, and he must get to Maidenhead and be peaceful and contented again. And why Maidenhead? Because he had been happy there with his sister, Ellen. They had had a splendid fortnight there, and she had died a year or so later. He would go on the river again, and be at peace. … But first of all he had to kill Netta.

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The ending is predictably bleak. Hamilton's social and political concerns are manifest in the reality of George's arrival in Maidenhead. Throughout the book, Maidenhead represents a hope, an "after", a reward for accomplishing his goals. But, alas, was it all just a shiny dream? Each of the novel’s Parts carries at least one epigraph. This is the epigraph for the Seventh Part.I was stirred more intellectually by The Slaves of Solitude. Hamilton was a few years older when he wrote it and I think the writing is better: more controlled, more philosophical, more poetic, more elegant, more mature. There are more moments when he telescopes out from the microcosmic action to make a macrocosmic comment. If I had to choose just one of these two book to reread, it’d be this one. I hope you’ve found this complete Between The Covers book list helpful. I’ll keep the list updated with every new series. The repetition might seem heavy-handed, but it attests to Hamilton’s rare ability to conjure atmosphere. You’re there with him, surveying a scene no less hectic than Hogarth’s Gin Lane. And, as with that picture, despair lurks too. In Hamilton-land, there’s always a need for one more round, the better to anaesthetise the anxiety besetting what the author Michael Holroyd calls “London’s defeated classes – the insignificant, the needy, the homeless and the ostracised”. Alexis Smith Gets Role of Nora in 'Human Bondage' -- Two New Films to Arrive Today". The New York Times. August 12, 1944. p.16.

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He was sane enough. If you didn’t count the ‘dead’ moods, he was sane enough. In fact he was probably too sane, too normal. Chapter four where he analyses Netta is so good I had to listen to it three times. What a masterpiece After a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist in his early twenties with the publication of Monday Morning (1925), written when he was nineteen. Craven House (1926) and Twopence Coloured (1928) followed, but his first real success was the play Rope (1929, known as Rope's End in America). Set principally in Earls Court and Brighton on the eve of WWII and first published in 1941 the book captures I feel (before my time though!) the smells, sights and sounds of the time; in particular British drinking culture – as the title might imply!The tragedy of George Harvey Bone endures. As a study in the perils of drink it is piercing. As a portrait of a man at war with himself, it is unforgettable. That wider, grim context means that, as well as being an invaluable social documenter, Hamilton – a theoretically committed Marxist – might be held as a political writer too. It’s tempting to draw comparisons in that regard with his contemporary, George Orwell. But his distinction lies in what makes him seem messier than his peer: his interest in tangled psychology. a b c Mank, Gregory William (2018). Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-2844-8.

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This then is a tale of a man who has laid out his deepest emotions unwisely and is paying a terrible price. In series four Sara Cox talks to the guests about their favourite books as well as a new release and a ‘Big Jubilee Read’. Hamilton treats us to different points of view. We get the perspective of two well wishers of Bone, who have a great time drinking with him at bars. They are kind to Bone, whom they recognize as a genuinely good person but also terribly weak and prone to getting hurt. First edition. Octavo. pp [x], 356, [2] adverts. One of the great British novels of the mid-century.Small (ink?) spot to rear cover. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Titles on spine a bit faded. Very good. No dustwrapper. Each week Sara and the celebrity guests discussed a new book release. This year, as the UK hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 on behalf of Ukraine, each episode also featured a novel set in a Eurovision country. Between The Covers Books List Series 6 – Book List New Releases

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Now the first book in his great trilogy about 1930s Soho and its environs – Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky – has been adapted by the award-winning choreographer Matthew Bourne for a show - The Midnight Bell - that is touring the UK until late November. She sang, “I Love the Moon …” At the end of her song she said, “Thank you, Mr BBC. Good night and God bless you …” Miss Fields will leave for Capri today. It is expected … Hangover Square", που είναι και το πιο πολυδιαβασμένο έργο του. Ε, ήταν μάλλον απίθανο οι εκδόσεις Στερέωμ�� να μην μου/μας κάνε�� τη χάρη και να μην το μετέφραζαν κάποια στιγμή. Πέρασαν δυο χρόνια, βέβαια, αλλά κάλλιο αργά παρά ποτέ. The Midnight Bell (1929) is based upon Hamilton's falling in love with a prostitute, and was later published along with The Siege of Pleasure (1932) and The Plains of Cement (1934) as the semi-autobiographical trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky (1935).

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You probably won’t love him ( I would be surprised if you did) but you will have to admit that as a character he is pretty credible. Not banal. Not pathetic. Even if what he does is pathetic, you will be able to see more to it. That’s what good writing is about. Those subtle dimensions that matter so much and yet are so hard to describe. The line between a bad novel and a good one can be terribly thin. Fortunately, this novel managed to make the cut. Dark as it is, it is a great read.This of course prompts the question, who is “you”? Trying to answer this will lead us to understand just how original a novelist Hamilton is. Much fiction of the 1930s, especially that written from what can be called a radical left-wing perspective, endorses a kind of drab socialist realism. It is manacled to a heavy weight of exact description, of individuals and their circumstances. It’s not so much mass as massy observation. At its best, which is probably Walter Brierley’s Means-Test Man, such observation is redeemed from tedium by an account of particular lives which through sheer accumulation of details gives a sense of the actuality of day-to-day existence. At its worst, it’s a bit like being button-holed by the pub bore determined to tell you in remorseless detail about how he found true love and saved the world. Now may God bless you all. May He defend the right. It is the evil things that we shall be fighting against, bad faith, oppression and persecution – and against them I am certain that the right will prevail. Robinson, Judy (May 5, 2012). "George's 'bad boy' antics behind the scene" . Retrieved May 16, 2015. Hangover Square' opens with a thrilling (even if medically dubious) description of a schizophrenic episode. It's just one of the many that will get much worse as the novel progresses. To achieve a great dissociative effect Hamilton had to resort to constant repetitions when describing those episodes and while annoying at first, eventually they become a hypnotising drumbeat.