Witty Gloom
Prompted by a friend I have started on a Patrick Hamiltonbonanza. Hangover Square and Slaves of Solitude so far. The man is gloomy from paragraph one, but so witty, so tart in his capture of society and internal musings. Sentence for sentence the writing is wonderful. Shame he drank himself to death. Alcohol didn't do much for his protagonists either.
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Lisa
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May 27, 2012 06:32AM
I thought Slaves of Solitude was very good, gloomy but witty, as you say... I'll have to try Hangover Square, too.
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I'm about to start Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky.
And I'll watch to see what you think of that one!
