First-Class Fellow Traveller
Terry Eagleton, 2 December 1993
“... which killed him in 1962. Hamilton was born in Hassocks in 1904 into a typically reputable middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and an atrocious novelist; his brother Bruce raised the familial tone by being merely a hard boozer and a third-rate writer; his mother committed suicide. Patrick himself broke with bourgeois respectability, plunging ... ”