Indeed, there are always others. How they come in in the story? What is their view on such a relationship? Are they a part of it? Perhaps even initiators? Why do other people have a certain power over us and why do we have it over them? Human relationships are a complex things and when we get down to it, isn’t it one of the things this novel is about? Relationships. The ones we have with others and well as the one we have with ourselves (that one can be a changing one). Yet what really sets things into motion? What is the motivation behind the actions of our protagonist? Isn’t it obsession? Surely it can be said that obsession plays an important part in this novel? When meeting her after a parting of any length he never dared to look at her fully, to take her in, all at once. He was too afraid of her loveliness – of being made to feel miserable by some new weapon from the arsenal of her beauty – something she wore, some fresh look, or attitude, or way of doing her hair, some tone in her voice or light in her eye – some fresh ‘horror’ in fact.

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Hamilton finished writing the novel in February 1941, delivering it a month later to his publishers. He seems to have been in two minds about its merit, telling his brother Bruce that it was “unambitious” and yet, perhaps, “the best thing I’ve ever written!” He seized hold of her ankles firmly and hauled them up in the air with his great strength, his great golfer’s wrists. Then he grasped both of her legs in one arm, and with the other held her, unstruggling, under water. completely, indeed sinisterly, devoid of all those qualities which her face and body externally proclaimed her to have – pensiveness, grace, warmth, agility, beauty. […] Her thoughts, however, resembled a fish – something seen floating in a tank, brooding, self-absorbed, frigid, moving solemnly towards its object or veering slowly sideways without fully conscious motivation’ ( Reference HamiltonHamilton 1941: pp. 124–5).Hosted by the lovely Sara Cox, Between the Covers is shown on Tuesday nights on BBC2 and the episodes can also be found on BBC iPlayer. This is a book about endless cycles of drinking binges and hangovers. It also is a book about an unhinged man convinced by some very convoluted logic that he needs to murder a woman - in that it reminded me of Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato (which is a great book and you should read it). In each episode, Sara is joined by four celebrities who are invited to bring in their favourite book to discuss. The guests also discuss a new release each week as well as a big-hitter. As if to cement her unpleasant character, privately at least, Hamilton located Netta’s flat precisely where the car hit him in 1932. His characters are lonely, lost souls, whether they attempt to connect or not, whether they drink themselves silly or no. Still they hold out hope, still they’re disappointed; they’re preyed upon, and, adding to the agony, know as much, but can’t help themselves. They’re from a bygone age, yet actually seem very close to our own atomised times.

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In The Slaves of Solitude, his 1947 evocation of wartime suburban England – modelled on Henley - a meek secretary, Miss Roach, is bullied on a daily basis at her lodging house by a typical Hamiltonian monster – the Nazi-sympathising Mr Thwaites who has “the steady look with which as a child he would have torn off a butterfly’s wing”. Perhaps American musical theatre’s genius will retrace his steps. Even if that proves a false trail of supposition, in Hamilton’s fascination with scrabbling lives, tormented souls, the desperation beneath the woozy veneer, lies an invitation to us all. By the end of his life, his drinking was the stuff of legend – glasses of Guinness in the morning, gin before lunch, whisky after tea, a post-war intake that apparently rarely fell below about three bottles a day. What I did notice is that there is something nomadic about it, the "atmosphere of homeless" (as it is described in the introduction to the novel), the feeling of desperate desire to get away, of someone trying to escape...The time line of the story is a bit relative, yet it fits the novel. You read fist chapter and then after a few chapters you see another "first chapter" and before you start saying ‘wtf’ just remember that you kind of have to connect some things for yourself. More than once in the novel, you will have some connecting to do. However, it is not difficult to do it. Hamilton is unparalleled when describing his characters’ inner narratives – first-person descriptions of subtle shifts in mood from elation to envy and murderous feelings. Indeed, his depiction of jealousy makes his personal experience of this emotion clear and, at times, the intensity of the emotion approaches morbid. These almost imperceptible moment-by-moment shifts in mood are those that a good mental state examination attempts to capture, though few of us are as gifted as Hamilton in our descriptions. Each week Sara and the celebrity guests discussed a new book release. This year, as the UK hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 on behalf of Ukraine, each episode also featured a novel set in a Eurovision country. Between The Covers Books List Series 6 – Book List New Releases This of course prompts the question, who is “you”? Trying to answer this will lead us to understand just how original a novelist Hamilton is. Much fiction of the 1930s, especially that written from what can be called a radical left-wing perspective, endorses a kind of drab socialist realism. It is manacled to a heavy weight of exact description, of individuals and their circumstances. It’s not so much mass as massy observation. At its best, which is probably Walter Brierley’s Means-Test Man, such observation is redeemed from tedium by an account of particular lives which through sheer accumulation of details gives a sense of the actuality of day-to-day existence. At its worst, it’s a bit like being button-holed by the pub bore determined to tell you in remorseless detail about how he found true love and saved the world. Alexis Smith Gets Role of Nora in 'Human Bondage' -- Two New Films to Arrive Today". The New York Times. August 12, 1944. p.16.

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We are, in many ways, made to almost want George to get revenge and murder the awful people who use and abuse him. On the one hand, there's a certain delight to be had in these bullies coming to a messy end; on the other, George essentially stalks and harasses a woman who has made it clear she isn't interested, and then proceeds to try and murder her. There's a tempting feminist perspective essay right there.

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The Midnight Bell (1929) is based upon Hamilton's falling in love with a prostitute, and was later published along with The Siege of Pleasure (1932) and The Plains of Cement (1934) as the semi-autobiographical trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky (1935). on 3rd reading I've realized this is a really, really good character study. The plot is only there to facilitate character developement, it's very obvious but when I first read this I didn't understand why it blew my mind. Lately I've come to realize that all my favourites are like this lol

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Solomon, Aubrey (2002). Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Scarecrow Press, p. 220 ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1 Mank, Gregory William (1994). Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre's Golden Age. McFarland & Company, pp. 327-28 ISBN 0-7864-1112-0.

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As you read over and over again about the same mistakes, you don't really get bored (or I didn't) because the story doesn't lose its interest. Maybe there is something universal about suffering that makes it such a fascinating read. This novel is definitely full of pain and desperation. Although I cannot say that I sympathized with the protagonist in the sense I really connected to him on an emotional level, I have to say that I did feel for him. Moreover, I really enjoyed reading this novel and the fact that he was well portrayed certainly played a part in that.