Sunday, February 19, 2006
Hangover Square
My review of Patrick Hamilton's newly reissued 1941 novel Hangover Square is now up at the Village Voice. Here's the hopelessly infatuated protagonist George Harvey Bone, in a particularly memorable moment of phone-booth desperation: "It was very thrilling to have got right into her flat, right into her bedroom, disguised as a bell, merely by paying twopence..."
