Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton Aubrey Beardsley worldly sophistication and schoolgirl naïveté—outside

worldly sophistication and schoolgirl naïveté—outside of the classic will-they-won’t-they set-up of an unlikely romantic pairing

spaces or happenings

a poet of love

earth makers

The works collected in this volume also provide a rare glimpse of the famously introverted poet in her capacity as public intellectual and critic

Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton Aubrey Beardsley worldly sophistication and schoolgirl naïveté—outsideHangover Square by Patrick Hamilton ISBN 9780349141565 405 page paperback from Abacus (UK) *** The seventy fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. 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