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Loving, Living, Party Going Henry Green

Loving, Living, Party Going By Henry Green

Loving, Living, Party Going by Henry Green


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Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of workers and owners in a Birmingham iron foundry.

Loving, Living, Party Going Summary

Loving, Living, Party Going by Henry Green

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a new generation. This volume brings together three of Henry Green's intensely original novels.

Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of workers and owners in a Birmingham iron foundry. Party Going is a brilliant comedy of manners, presenting a party of wealthy travellers stranded by fog in a London railway hotel while throngs of workers await trains in the station below.

Loving, Living, Party Going Reviews

Green paints an unforgettable portrait of a doomed, amoral world whose characters, trapped in the fog, are somehow waltzing blithely towards oblivion...cinematic in its intensity -- Robert McCrum * Guardian *
Heartbreaking, funny and written with such luminous prose - he's the most brilliant, and neglected, of English writers * Red Magazine *
Perhaps the best introduction to another great original of the English novel, who learned from Firbank's economy, but who had his own quite different imaginative world. Loving, set among the servants of an Irish country house, combines his superbly truthful ear for how people really speak with an unforgettable vein of surreal poetry -- Alan Hollinghurst * New York Times *
The most original, the best writer of his time -- Rebecca West
The most gifted prose writer of his generation -- V. S. Pritchett

About Henry Green

Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born in 1905 near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become managing director of an engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel, Blindness (1926) was written whilst he was still at school and published whilst he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the London Fire Brigade. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels, Blindness, Living, Party Going, Caught, Loving, Back, Concluding, Nothing and Doting, and a memoir, Pack My Bag. Henry Green died in December 1973

Additional information

GOR001715591
9780099481478
0099481472
Loving, Living, Party Going by Henry Green
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2005-10-06
544
N/A
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