Review
`Heartbreaking, funny and written with such luminous prose - he's the most brilliant, and neglected, of English writers'. --Red Magazine
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Review
"Heartbreaking, funny and written with such luminous prose - he's the most brilliant, and neglected, of English writers"
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Book Description
CENTENARY EDITION - with a new introduction by Sebastian Faulks
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Product Description
An exploration of class distinctions through the medium of love. Set in an iron foundry in Birmingham, this novel grittily contrasts the lives of the workers and the owners.
From the Publisher
CENTENARY EDITION - with a new introduction by Sebastian Faulks
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From the Back Cover
Living, as an early novel, marks the beginning of Henry Green's career as a writer who made his name by exploring class distinctions through the medium of love. Set in an iron foundry in Birmingham, Living grittily and entertainingly contrasts the lives of the workers and the owners.
'His novels made more of an impact on me than those of any writer living or dead.' John Updike.
'Green's books remain solid and glittering as gems ... They are not, like so many contemporary novels, mere slices of life but highly successful attempts at making art give meaning to life.' Anthony Burgess
About the Author
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was born in 1905 at the family home of his parents, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked at the family engineering firm for most of his life and pursued a parallel career as a novelist. He married in 1929 and had one son. During WWII he served for the duration in the London Fire Brigade. He died in December 1973. (20050107)
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