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

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Both of them are completely claustrophobic, the camera is jammed up against the main character all the time, we’re in their faces or hanging over their shoulders the whole time, there might be ten seconds here or there where Rosetta or Keane aren’t in the shot, but that will be because we’re looking through their eyes. These lines (1679-1684) are spoken by the Chorus near the end of Milton’s great work, after Samson has pulled down the temple, in the process killing both himself and the Philistines to whom he has for years been hostage, ‘Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with Slaves’.

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The society it depicts – although ‘evokes’ or even ‘ghosts’ might be the better word for a technique that refuses to stick to the literalistic – is sick almost to death. The West End of his trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (1935) now shares space in Hangover Square with the lowering environs of Earl’s Court and desultory excursions to seaside towns.Despite attempts to cut down his drinking, his health declined steadily and he died at the age of 58. Sara Coxtalks toguest starsabout their favourite books as well as a popular book from2020, and a book recently published in2021.

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Hangover Square is a peculiar novel—peculiarly successful—in that readers will inevitably root for the protagonist Bone to do something truly awful—morally reprehensible, in fact. Up until very near the end he has been a slave to Hangoverians, the object of their sadistic taunts, victim of behaviour calculated to humiliate him. You don't even notice they're there until they whisper in your ear, gently, almost subliminally, to please pass the crackers. That is why George makes such a moving character, for outside of his psychotic blackouts he understands his situation all too well. Anyway, bottom line is: Netta uses men as much as she is used by them, so let’s cut her some slack, eh?Now penniless, he gasses himself in a dingy Maidenhead boarding house by turning on the gas fire but not lighting it. The novel, which charts with aplomb the calendar from winter through to late summer 1939, shows how with spring may come hope. Hamilton finished writing the novel in February 1941, delivering it a month later to his publishers. He murders both Peter and Netta and in doing so displays the physical strength that goes, Hamilton suggests, with his golfing prowess. Having been placed on suspension the previous year for refusing to perform in The Undying Monster, he accepted the role of Dr.

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His good fortune did not last long, however, as in 1932 he was hit by a car which left him badly disfigured and with a hatred of motor cars for the rest of his life. At any rate, this sort of book is unassuming and consequently arouses no suspicion in us (the readers) that it might be great or even very good. His play Rope was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock and his play Gaslight was a huge success on the stage before being made into a popular film starring Ingrid Bergman.The American composer Stephen Sondheim has cited Bernard Herrmann's score for Hangover Square as a major influence on his musical Sweeney Todd. When he “came to” he had little recollection of where he had been’ ( Reference HackingHacking 1998: p.

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By such means he tries to single himself out as an ‘ultra-masculine’ man, and like Netta and Mickey, another of her hangers-on, Peter regards the Munich agreement, which we hear of at the beginning of the novel, as providing the licence for a stupendous drinking orgy.But in his biography, Nigel Jones says that Hamilton never accepted this line and was, for all his Communist sympathies, Churchillian in his patriotism. Johnnie’s benign view of even the contemporary disaster of the Thetis (a submarine sunk in the Mersey in which all those on board in fact died) is not so much a way of whistling in the dark as a sudden irrational but understandable surge of optimism. There, he keeps reminding himself, he had for a brief period of his childhood been happy, living with a sister now dead, before he was sent away to public school. After Chamberlain’s visit to Munich the previous year and the shabby betrayals that followed, the mood seems to have been one of uncertainty shading into dread.