Pack My Bag – A Self–Portrait - Softcover

Green, Henry; Yorke, Sebastian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811215725 ISBN 13: 9780811215725

Publisher: New Directions, 2004

Synopsis

Pack My Bag is a marvelously quirky, clear-eyed memoir: a mother who shot at mangle wurzels (turnips) bowled across the lawn for her by the servants; the stately home packed with wounded World War I soldiers; the miseries of Eton, oddities of Oxford, and work in the family factory--the making of a brilliantly original novelist. "We have inherited the greatest orchestra, the English language, to conduct," Green once wrote. "The means are there; things are going on in life all the time around us." His use of language and his account of things that went on in his life inform this delightful and idiosyncratic autobiography, which begins: "I was born a mouthbreather with a silver spoon."

About this title

Review:

"To read Green is to be profoundly challenged and empowered, drawn into a community of feeling, speech, and thought. It's like dancing with Nijinsky or Astaire who leads you faultlessly on."

About the Author:

Henry Green (1905-1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become the managing director of his family's engineering business, writing nine novels in his spare time. Anthony Burgess found his books "as solid and glittering as gems." He also wrote an astonishing memoir, Pack My Bag, published by New Directions.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0811215725
• ISBN 13: 9780811215725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256