Still haunted by his love for Rose, who had married another man and later, died, Charley Summers becomes obsessed with the idea that Rose's half sister is really his beloved

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"The skillful coupling of love talk and office terminology, the dexterous handling of characters who seem at first glance to be picked bone clean but who turn into cream, and the view of a world just a little off center make "Back" a delightful, wispy and original experience." "Kirkus"
"Writing that shines with wit and good humor." "Time""

"Farcical mystery and a heavy dose of pragmatism enliven and ground British writer Green's 1946 off-kilter romance In this quick and engrossing novel, Green reveals that living and loving are more about embracing failures and making frequent recalibrations than striving toward unattainable ideals. Kirkusstarred review

"Writing that shines with wit and good humor." Time

"The skillful coupling of love talk and office terminology, the dexterous handling of characters who seem at first glance to be picked bone clean but who turn into cream, and the view of a world just a little off center makeBacka delightful, wispy and original experience." Kirkus
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Henry Green is nearer than almost any other to the spirit and what one might call the central nerve of our time. Elizabeth Bowen
Green questions what it could mean to come back from a war that hasn t ended in reality or memory. In this quick and engrossing novel, Green reveals that living and loving are more about embracing failures and making frequent recalibrations than striving toward unattainable ideals.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
To describe his scenes as having the visual clarity of the best movie shots does not convey their peculiar quality of hallucination. To say that his plots are hinged on certain fatal situations from myth and fable does not carry over Green s feeling for our particular fate in modern life, or the compulsive fears and anxieties of his characters for their modern fate, especially for organizations represented by initials. Mark Schorer, The New York Times Book Review
Backis Henry Green s most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted and haunted. Jeremy Treglown
"Writing that shines with wit and good humor." Time

"The skillful coupling of love talk and office terminology, the dexterous handling of characters who seem at first glance to be picked bone clean but who turn into cream, and the view of a world just a little off center makeBacka delightful, wispy and original experience." Kirkus
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-Henry Green is nearer than almost any other to the spirit and what one might call the central nerve of our time.- --Elizabeth Bowen
-Green questions what it could mean to come 'back' from a war that hasn't ended in reality or memory. In this quick and engrossing novel, Green reveals that living and loving are more about embracing failures and making frequent recalibrations than striving toward unattainable ideals.-
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
-To describe his scenes as having the visual clarity of the best movie shots does not convey their peculiar quality of hallucination. To say that his plots are hinged on certain fatal situations from myth and fable does not carry over Green's feeling for our particular fate in modern life, or the compulsive fears and anxieties of his characters for their modern fate, especially for organizations represented by initials.- --Mark Schorer, The New York Times Book Review
-Back is Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted--and haunted.- --Jeremy Treglown
-Writing that shines with wit and good humor.- --Time

-The skillful coupling of love talk and office terminology, the dexterous handling of characters who seem at first glance to be picked bone clean but who turn into cream, and the view of a world just a little off center make Back a delightful, wispy and original experience.- --Kirkus

"Henry Green is nearer than almost any other to the spirit and what one might call the central nerve of our time." --Elizabeth Bowen

"Green questions what it could mean to come 'back' from a war that hasn't ended in reality or memory. In this quick and engrossing novel, Green reveals that living and loving are more about embracing failures and making frequent recalibrations than striving toward unattainable ideals."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"To describe his scenes as having the visual clarity of the best movie shots does not convey their peculiar quality of hallucination. To say that his plots are hinged on certain fatal situations from myth and fable does not carry over Green's feeling for our particular fate in modern life, or the compulsive fears and anxieties of his characters for their modern fate, especially for organizations represented by initials." --Mark Schorer, The New York Times Book Review

"Back is Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted--and haunted." --Jeremy Treglown

"Writing that shines with wit and good humor." --Time

The skillful coupling of love talk and office terminology, the dexterous handling of characters who seem at first glance to be picked bone clean but who turn into cream, and the view of a world just a little off center make Back a delightful, wispy and original experience.
--Kirkus

In all of these novels we are made aware of the most profound and surprising truths about life, love and the human heart without being able to pinpoint any one page, line, or moment of epiphany. To read all three back-to-back is to find oneself in the presence of rare genius, fit to sit along Woolf, Fitzgerald and Joyce on anyone's shelf of classics. Henry Green is here to stay.
--David Wright, The Seattle Times

A spare and eventually incredibly moving story of hope lost and regained, and of scars that never fully heal.
--John Williams, "The Book Reader," NY1

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