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Caught, Back, Concluding
Henry Green
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Description for Caught, Back, Concluding
Paperback. Offers a view of a class-ridden Britain enduring both war and its aftermath. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 50. Weight in Grams: 520.
Dazzling, daring and full of original insight and wit, Henry Green offers a unique view of a class-ridden Britain enduring both war and its aftermath. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, so brilliantly evoked in Caught, gossip spreads like wildfire and the lives of two men are torn apart. In Back, Charley, an amputee, returns from a prison camp to his village and the grave of the woman he loved. Concluding was Green's own favourite of his novels and tells the story of a summer's day and a schoolgirl's disappearance. The text of Caught used in ... Read more
Dazzling, daring and full of original insight and wit, Henry Green offers a unique view of a class-ridden Britain enduring both war and its aftermath. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, so brilliantly evoked in Caught, gossip spreads like wildfire and the lives of two men are torn apart. In Back, Charley, an amputee, returns from a prison camp to his village and the grave of the woman he loved. Concluding was Green's own favourite of his novels and tells the story of a summer's day and a schoolgirl's disappearance. The text of Caught used in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784871031
SKU
V9781784871031
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Ref
99-97
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Caught, Back, Concluding
The greatest of the English modernists after [DH] Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
James Wood Henry Green's novels are among the most dazzling, inventive and individual of the last century
Daily Telegraph
The finest living English novelist
W.H. Auden The most gifted prose writer of his generation
V.S. Pritchett ... Read more
James Wood Henry Green's novels are among the most dazzling, inventive and individual of the last century
Daily Telegraph
The finest living English novelist
W.H. Auden The most gifted prose writer of his generation
V.S. Pritchett ... Read more