Published by Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£9.99
Author:
Henry Green
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781846555626
£9.99
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EAN: 9781846555626
Published: 5 Apr 2011
Satirizing the tedium of upper-middle-class life in post-war London, this novel depicts a world in which substance is far less important to anyone than appearance. The question asked throughout the text concerns the differences between doting and loving.
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Henry Green is the pen-name for Henry Vincent Yorke, the son of a prosperous Midlands industrialist. He was born near Tewkesbury in 1905 and was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he wrote his first novel, Blindness, published in 1926. He entered the family business on the factory-floor, and went on to run the firm while writing eight further novels as a spare-time occupation. Doting, published in 1952, was his last. In the opinion of Rebecca West he was 'the most original... the best writer of his time', while for L.P. Hartley he was 'a spellbinder, a true artist'.
Henry Green died in 1973.
