{"id":19336,"date":"2010-01-20T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=19336"},"modified":"2010-01-20T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:56:24","slug":"3am-cult-hero-patrick-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-cult-hero-patrick-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"3:AM<\/i> Cult Hero: Patrick Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n“In the meanwhile, it would be best to get drunk. He did so.” <\/i><\/div>\n

Andrew Stevens on The Gorse Trilogy<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

The Hamilton back catalogue forms an odd assortment, with Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky<\/a><\/i> out in Vintage Classics and Hangover Square<\/a><\/i> still doing well as a Penguin Modern Classic, while Impromptu in Moribundia<\/b><\/i>, his most explicitly political work as a declared Marxist, can also be found on a small press.<\/p>\n

Ignore Nick Hornby’s banal comment about Hamilton being the missing piece of motorway between Dickens and Martin Amis<\/a>, Hamilton’s worth is proven by the devoted legions of fans among younger authors such as Dan Rhodes<\/b> and Niven Govinden<\/b> and those who pack out rooms above pubs in Soho at nights organised by the Sohemian Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nWhile the Gorse<\/a><\/i> trilogy is not exactly Hamilton’s magnum opus (especially the drink-soaked Unknown Assailant<\/b><\/i>), it does demonstrate his handy knack for both literature and drama and we can all raise a glass to its reissue, something I fear the man “who needed whisky like a car needed petrol”<\/i> and died of multiple organ failure would approve no doubt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More:<\/b> Charlotte Stretch reviews The Gorse Trilogy<\/i><\/a> for 3:AM<\/i> \/ ‘Unhappy Hour’<\/a>, Dan Rhodes on The Midnight Bell<\/b><\/i> \/ ‘Pulped fictions’<\/a>, Iain Sinclair on the film adaptations of Hamilton’s work \/ Cathi Unsworth<\/a> drinks in London through Patrick Hamilton’s eyes \/ ‘The lost worlds of Patrick Hamilton’<\/a>, D.J. Taylor’s introduction to The Gorse Trilogy<\/b><\/i> \/ Is the world ready for Patrick Hamilton?<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In the meanwhile, it would be best to get drunk. He did so.” Andrew Stevens on The Gorse Trilogy: The Hamilton back catalogue forms an odd assortment, with Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky out in Vintage Classics and Hangover Square still doing well as a Penguin Modern Classic, while Impromptu in Moribundia, his most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}