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(1946). Psychoanalytic Review, 33:252

Hamilton, Patrick. Hangover Square. [New York: Random House. Pp. 308. $2.50.]

This is a first novel, apparently by an Englishman. The author prefaces his book by a dictionary definition of Schizophrenia. He then narrates the story of a young and somewhat slavish young man in love with an attractive girl who does not reciprocate his love but rather uses him shabbily. The characters are of a superficial, drinking set. Finally he kills her in her apartment by submerging her in a bathtub. He then kills her lover with a well aimed blow of a golf club. He ends his own life by taking gas. The story is graphically told and the turpitude is entirely credible. The style itself shows no unusual distinction.

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(1946). Hamilton, Patrick. Hangover Square. [New York: Random House. Pp. 308. $2.50.]. Psychoanal. Rev., 33:252