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Loving, Living, Party Going Paperback – 6 Oct. 2005

by Henry Green (Author), Sebastian Faulks (Introduction)

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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.

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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

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Classics (6 Oct. 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099481472
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099481478
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 3.33 x 19.84 cm

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Great Books - Irritating Intro

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I understand many of the reviewers who found Henry Green difficult but thought Sebastian Faulks was a bit sweeping in his introduction that 'Party Going, though it has proved a most fertile ground for critics and theorists of narrative, is the one that is most likely to be problematic to the non-academic reader' as if an 'ordinary' reader hasn't the application or intelligence to get through these three volumes. I'm sure he didn't mean it to sound like that.

Yes - they are hard work on one level, but that's only because they break modern conventions of novel writing much as Wilf Self has done in Umbrella. However, once you fall into the rhythm of Green's lyrical dialogue it is no more difficult to read than a play and when he breaks from dialogue to describe a rare piece of location the images - for example, the conversations shouted over the sound of the relentlessly crashing surf in Loving - live on long after you have finished the book.

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BM Cawton

A largely forgotten author, understandably

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Other writers talk about Green as if he is some forgotten genius. Though his writing is crisp and controlled, these three novels are numbingly boring to read. Let him slide back into obscurity.

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Four and a half stars! A revelation: fascinating ...

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Four and a half stars! A revelation: fascinating stories from the mid twentieth century, written in a highly original and intriguing style.

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Dorothy

Very poor quality edition

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My comments and rating are not on the content of the book but on the edition.

The Vintage paperback edition is very poor quality - it is printed on cheap, thin paper and the text has been printed at an angle on the page so that the lines are on a slope up from left to right.

This is the second Vintage Classics paperback I have bought recently and the other was also a shoddy edition. I shall try to avoid the imprint in future.

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Christopher H

A top read

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"Living" is a rare treat. The prose style is set in a Midlands accent throughout, using not just a distinctive vocabulary but the clipped rhythms, dropped articles, and regional phrasing patterns.

The result is like reading a text set down in dialect, or, in a strange way, Chaucer in the original. The experience is closer to absorbing the spoken word, to hearing talking rather than to reading writing, to the nature of 'parole' (direct speech) rather than 'ecriture' (written prose).

Should this be counted as experimental modernism? Maybe not. Whatever, the novel stresses voice in a manner not often encountered in English literature (Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners might be a point of comparison).

Do read it; do savour it.

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Tracy Aitken

It’s not Evelyn you know.

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I bought this when looking around for an author similar th early Evelyn Waugh. I’m afraid to say I didn’t find it here - although it may be that the style of this author didn’t suit me.

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Ian Brawn

Approximately One-Third Brilliant

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This is a collection of three novels by Henry Green. Loving is set in a run-down country house in Ireland during the second world war. The English inhabitants below (and occasionally above) stairs move in webs of fear, distrust and cautious desire. Green has a good ear for dialogue (which he displays in all these stories), and I enjoyed the curious point of view from which this story is written: it zips around but speculates, an almost-omniscient narrator. However, the threads of plot are gossamer thin. Strangely, in this Vintage edition, there is also a dearth of full stops. At first I thought this a modernist experiment, but I concluded it's due to poor proofreading.

Living is much better. Set around a foundry in Birmingham in the 1920s, it tells of the narrow lives of the workers and their families, plus the scheming managers above them, and the pampered son of the owner, who ponders how to make his mark. These characters, with all their pride, selfishness, fears and yearning, are brought to life vividly. Furthermore, the prose is a joy. Green drops articles and conjunctions to approximate the worker's dialect, and in doing so creates a voice that is rugged and terse, but still capable of lyricism, like the people themselves.

Finally, Party Going is another exploration of class, inner lives and crossed ambitions. This time a party of the leisured class are trapped in a fog-bound train station, where they chafe and conspire busily. It's a knotty little comedy of manners, executed with insight and a dry wit. However, it feels a bit frivolous after Living, which is the real gem here.

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Jaybird

Beautiful and insightful

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I'm also new to Henry Green, but loved this book. It manages to be moving without ever being mawkish, and real without ever letting you forget the quality of the prose.

Just gorgeous to curl up with on rainy Summer evenings.

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