Surviving - Softcover

Green, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0002726785 ISBN 13: 9780002726788

Publisher: Harvill Press, 1994

Synopsis

The uncollected writings of the author of "Living", "Loving", "Caught", "Nothing" and "Blindness".

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From the Back Cover:

"The most gifted prose writer of his generation" V.S. Pritchett

Edited by the author's grandson, the novelist Matthew Yorke, and with an Introduction by John Updike, this book is an excellent selection of Henry Green's uncollected writings. It includes a number of outstanding stories never previously published, written during the '20s and '30s ("Bees", "Saturday", "Excursion", and the remarkable "Mood" among them). It contains a highly entertaining account of Green's service in the London Fire Brigade during the War; a short play written in the 1950s; and a selection of his journalism, including revelatory articles about the craft of writing, a marvellous evocation of Venice, a description of falling in love, reviews which illuminate his literary enthusiasm and the entertaining interview with Terry Southern for the Paris Review. It is rounded off with a biographical memoir by Green's son, Sebastian Yorke. Fascinating and invaluable as an introduction to Green, Surviving casts new light on his work and illustrates the many facets of this exceptional writer, one of the two most important English novelists of his time.

"His novels reproduce, as few English novels do, the actual sensations of living" Elizabeth Bowen

"Henry Green is one of the two great creative novelists of this generation (the other being Ivy Compton-Burnett). By 'creative' I mean that the development of his talent brought something completely new into the English novel and each new work of his is a creation of his peculiar art" Olivia Manning

About the 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0002726785
• ISBN 13: 9780002726788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320