Centenary edition - with a new introduction by Sebastian Faulks.
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 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
Sebastian Faulks (Introducer)
Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a
full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian
Faulks's books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green
Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My
Heart Used to Beat.
"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
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