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

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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. Expert Laird Tells How to Lose Weight". The Pittsburgh Press. December 3, 1944 . Retrieved May 16, 2015. By the end of his life, his drinking was the stuff of legend – glasses of Guinness in the morning, gin before lunch, whisky after tea, a post-war intake that apparently rarely fell below about three bottles a day.

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As you get further and further into the book you get deeper and deeper into his head. You come to fully understand what he is gong through. The author’s ability to show the reader George’s world is what makes the book very good. Laird Cregar, a fan of the original novel, encouraged 20th Century Fox to buy the film rights. Fox agreed, but wanted to recreate the success that it had enjoyed the previous year with The Lodger, and made several changes to the story, including the main character's personality and the setting. Cregar, George Sanders and John Brahm, who had all worked together in The Lodger, signed on with the project.His characters are lonely, lost souls, whether they attempt to connect or not, whether they drink themselves silly or no. Still they hold out hope, still they’re disappointed; they’re preyed upon, and, adding to the agony, know as much, but can’t help themselves. They’re from a bygone age, yet actually seem very close to our own atomised times. on 3rd reading I've realized this is a really, really good character study. The plot is only there to facilitate character developement, it's very obvious but when I first read this I didn't understand why it blew my mind. Lately I've come to realize that all my favourites are like this lol

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Netta herself is sexually attracted to the fascist movement and its fetishistic totems: “She liked the uniforms, the guns, the breeches, the boots, the swastikas, the shirts.” The political is contiguous with the personal. Her coarseness, her casual duplicity, her contempt for the weak and helpless – if Netta is not an actual fascist, she is a spiritual adherent, a ruthless foe of all that is decent and gentle and cultured. As George, in his abjection, pleads with her: “Can’t you be civil? Can’t you look at me and say something civil?” It’s a world which Hamilton – who died of cirrhosis of the liver aged 58 in 1962 - knew at first hand. He started drinking heavily and regularly circa 1927, while in his twenties - haunting pubs in Earl’s Court, Chelsea, Soho and around Euston Road. 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. As you read over and over again about the same mistakes, you don't really get bored (or I didn't) because the story doesn't lose its interest. Maybe there is something universal about suffering that makes it such a fascinating read. This novel is definitely full of pain and desperation. Although I cannot say that I sympathized with the protagonist in the sense I really connected to him on an emotional level, I have to say that I did feel for him. Moreover, I really enjoyed reading this novel and the fact that he was well portrayed certainly played a part in that. 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.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 Which is Hamilton’s point. Or rather, because novels don’t exist to make a point, it’s what we can infer from all that Hamilton shows us. George’s aunt embodies old-style decencies. Her washed-out kindliness is a world away from the rootless, amoral decadence of Hangover Square. Bone belongs to the Square but he is not really of it. At the beginning of the novel we are even told that he would prefer to be a countryman. ‘He wanted a cottage in the country – yes, a good old cottage in the country – and he wanted Netta as his wife. No children, just Netta – and to live with her happily and quietly ever afterwards.’ In your dreams, as the saying goes. People of all shades of wretchedness circling one another like doomed planets around a dying sun -- horrible but compelling and often nightmarishly funny. (Our vacillating protagonist is afflicted with a Jekyll/Hyde strain of schizophrenia, half masochistic daydreamer, half laser-focus automaton, to whom murder is only a matter of rigorous planning.) And it's an exemplary noir: you're not going to like the hapless 'hero', and there never was any feasible means of closure or escape, but you're definitely going to want George Harvey Bone to succeed in his grisly aims, so awful are his nemeses (who, we're invited to understand, he has instinctively collected out of murderous self-loathing).

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Sanders also brought complications. Having been placed on suspension the previous year for refusing to perform in The Undying Monster, he accepted the role of Dr. Allan Middleton. However, he was unhappy with his script, particularly the final line in the film, which required him to justify the death of George Harvey Bone by saying, "He's better off this way." When shooting the scene, which was very expensive to film, Sanders repeatedly refused to say the line. He was later involved in an altercation with the film's producer Robert Bassler, with Sanders punching Bassler. The line was later changed to "It's better this way." [6] What I did notice is that there is something nomadic about it, the "atmosphere of homeless" (as it is described in the introduction to the novel), the feeling of desperate desire to get away, of someone trying to escape...

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Yes, obsession is an important theme in this one. Love that is gradually turned into something sinister and finally love as a fully blown obsession. Not just love/ hate type of relationship but the kind of obsession that can drive one mad, that is at its root is mad. Written in third person narration, it feels somewhat like a diary because there is so much focus put on the inner state of the protagonist. I wanted to call it a diary of obsession but I realized it is more than that. It is a diary of an individual, a diary that captures wonderfully all the awful desperation that is to be found in his soul. If I’m making it sound like a marvellously depressive read, it is because it really is. When meeting her after a parting of any length he never dared to look at her fully, to take her in, all at once. He was too afraid of her loveliness – of being made to feel miserable by some new weapon from the arsenal of her beauty – something she wore, some fresh look, or attitude, or way of doing her hair, some tone in her voice or light in her eye – some fresh ‘horror’ in fact. The title of the book is a wordplay on the name Hanover Square, an area of London that was once home to many late-night drinking establishments.