By mid-career, many successful writers find a groove and their
readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so
with Henry Green (1905-1973). He prefers uncertainty over reason
and fragmentation over cohesion, and rarely lets the reader settle
into a nice cozy read. Evil, he suggests, can be as instructive as
good. Through his use of paradoxical and ambiguous language, his
novels bring texture to the flatness of life, making the world seem
bigger and closer. We soon stop worrying about what Hitler's bombs
have in store for the Londoners of Caught (1943) and Back (1946)
and start thinking about what they have in store for each other.
Praised in his lifetime as England's top fiction author, he is
largely overlooked today. This book presents a comprehensive
analysis of his work for a new generation of readers.
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