Passing-Out Time
Christopher Tayler: Patrick Hamilton’s drinking, 29 January 2009
The Slaves of Solitude
by Patrick Hamilton.
Constable, 327 pp., £7.99, September 2008,978 1 84529 415 1 Show More
by Patrick Hamilton.
Constable, 327 pp., £7.99, September 2008,
The Gorse Trilogy
by Patrick Hamilton.
Black Spring, 603 pp., £9.95, June 2007,978 0 948238 34 5 Show More
by Patrick Hamilton.
Black Spring, 603 pp., £9.95, June 2007,
“... was sometimes said, was always in the pub but never really of it. Much the same could be said of Patrick Hamilton, who was best known in his lifetime for his stage chillers Rope (1929) and Gaslight (1938), but is mostly remembered for the expert depictions of joyless interwar boozing in Hangover Square (1941) and the trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets under the ... ”