Fiction Book Group: Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Schedule
Thu Oct 31 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom | Nottingham, EN
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‘I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific’ Sarah WatersOur book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once a lifetime. All we ask is that you read the book in advance and take part in the discussion. There’s a short introduction by a member of staff, a group regular, or someone we know with a special interest in the book in question.
This month, we’re reading Patrick Hamilton’s classic ‘Hangover Square’.
London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. 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 K*ll her. 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.
Our book groups – Fiction (monthly), Pagan (bi-monthly), Non-Fiction (roughly quarterly)
A free event. Refreshments included.
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Where is it happening?
14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom, 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2, United Kingdom,Nottingham, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
