Издания и произведения

Hamilton (1904–1962) captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frustrated British man in this WWII-era novel published in the U.S. as a separate volume for the first time. As the story opens, 34-year-old George Harvey Bone—a heavyset, good-hearted failure—is obsessed with his ongoing effort to either woo or, frighteningly, kill the lovely Netta Longdon, a callous, smalltime London actress whose charms seem limited to her physical beauty. Longdon shows little interest in Bone's advances, but she always seems ready to take advantage of Bone's generosity and to stab him in the back by, say, sleeping with…

London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when something goes click in his head and he realizes, without doubt, that he must kill her.

34-летний Джордж Харви Боун, коренастый, добросердечный неудачник одержим своими попытками либо добиться расположения прекрасной Нетты Лонгдон, бездушной, второсортной лондонской актрисы, либо убить ее. Логндон не проявляет интереса к попыткам Боуна, но кажется всегда готова воспользоваться щедростью Боуна и нанести ему очередной дар в спину...