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Impromptu in Moribundia is a satirical fable about one man's trespass into a parallel universe on a far-off planet where the 'miserably dull affairs of England' are mirrored and transformed into an apparent idyll of bourgeois English imagination.
Moribundia is the physical enactment of the stereotypes and myths of English middle-class culture and consciousness. Yet the narrator comes to discover that he has stumbled among a people characterised by 'cupidity, ignorance, complacence, meanness, ugliness, short-sightedness, cowardice, credulity, hysteria and, when the occasion called for it . . . cruelty and blood-thirstiness'. 'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters 'Hamilton is a master at reproducing the inflated talk of betrayed lives' Independent 'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick HornbyDetails
- Title Impromptu in Moribundia
- Author Patrick Hamilton
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Abacus (UK)
- ISBN 9780349141626 / 0349141622
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.912
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