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Concluding by Henry Green

Lone mothers and their children currently comprise almost 20 per cent of all families with dependent children in Britain. Their numbers have nearly trebled since 1970. Politicians and the media have focused on them as a symptom and cause of a broader social breakdown, yet little is known about the causes, consequences and conditions of lone motherhood. Good Enough Mothering? provides accounts of historical patterns of mothering and ideologies of the family, cross-national comparisons of policies and experiences of lone mothers in developed and developing countries. It analyses recent social policies and legislative changes in family law, the Child Support Act and discourses about the creation of an underclass in Britain and the USA. This edited collection, with contributions from leading academics in their fields, builds on feminist scholarship on motherhood and 'the family' and contributes significantly to the feminist and social policy literature on lone mothers. Good Enough Mothering? will be essential reading for all students of social policy, women's studies and sociology.
"A darkly comic romp of rare intensity that confounds as much as it astounds" -- Star Tribune
"Discomfiting social comedy—think Bunuel meets Forster or Beckett meets Mitford." -- The New Yorker
"Lush enough to get lost in." -- The Paris Review
"Green's books live on with ever-brightening intensity" -- The Wall Street Journal
"Henry Green’s silences are instruments of sublime communication." -- Becca Rothfeld - Times Literary Supplement
"A novel of projections, protractions, long shots, and shadows flying ahead, a slow fall. Uncommonly close to the quick of experience, the sentences are short but they are glancing—the effect can be magically exhilarating, as when the knife thrower does not pierce but surrounds the living target, and it is the reader whose heart is thereby found. The sinister world of Concluding is beautiful, side-lit and colored like an undersea kingdom." -- Eudora Welty
"Such rarity, such marvelous originality, intuition, sensuality and finish..." -- John Updike
"The characters and story come alive in an almost incredible way, quite beyond anything achieved by conventional methods of writing." -- Terry Southern
"The most gifted prose writer of his generation." -- V.S. Pritchett
"The best English novelist." -- W. H. Auden
"The freshness and force of the work is somewhat uncanny in his gorgeous, enigmatic Concluding." -- Deborah Eisenberg - The New York Review of Books
"Peculiar and beautiful—I love Concluding for the glorious, syntax-straining sentences that flare out of nowhere, and full of wild energies." -- Lars Iyer - New Statesman
Henry Green (1905–1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become the managing director of his family’s engineering business, writing nine novels in his spare time. Anthony Burgess found his books “as solid and glittering as gems.” He also wrote an astonishing memoir, Pack My Bag, published by New Directions. Eudora Welty (1909–2001), the great novelist and short-story writer, won the Pulitzer Prize and believed that “all serious daring starts from within.”
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ISBN 13 9780811227001
ISBN 10 0811227006
Title Concluding
Author Henry Green
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published 2017-10-15
Number of pages 224
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