Loving by Henry Green - ISBN: 9780099285090
Paperback
Upstairs absent, downstairs ablaze: love, gossip, and wartime anarchy.
  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    15 October 2000

Summary

One of his most admired works, LOVING describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe; invading one another’s provinces of authority to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip and love.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099285090
ISBN-10:0099285096
Author:Henry Green
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:15 October 2000
Weight:161g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Series:Vintage classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Heartbreaking, funny and written with such luminous prose - he’s the most brilliant, and neglected, of English writers

Heartbreaking, funny and written with such luminous prose - he’s the most brilliant, and neglected, of English writers – Helen Cross

About The Author

Henry Green

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.

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