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Loving, Living, Party Going
Henry Green
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Description for Loving, Living, Party Going
paperback. Brings together three of the author's original novels. He explores class distinctions through the medium of love. This book presents a 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. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 394.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099481478
SKU
V9780099481478
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About Henry Green
Henry Green (Author) 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Loving, Living, Party Going
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more