Living Contributor(s): Green, Henry (Author), Thirlwell, Adam (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1681370689 ISBN-13: 9781681370682 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Biographical |
Dewey: 823.914 |
LCCN: 2016026844 |
Series: Nyrb Classics |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England's working class Living is a book about life in a factory town and the operations of a factory, from the workers on the floor to the boss in his office. The town is Birmingham and the factory is an iron foundry, like the one that Henry Green worked in for some time in the 1920s after dropping out of Oxford, and the stories--courtships, layoffs, getting dinner on the table, going to the pub, death--are all the ordinary stuff of life. The style, however, is pure Henry Green, at once starkly constrained and wildly streaked with the expedients and eccentricities of everyday speech--clich and innuendo, clashing metaphors, slips of tongue--which is to say it is like nothing else. Epic and antic, Living is a book of exact observation and deep tenderness, the work, in Rosamond Lehmann's words, of an "amorous and austere voluptuary" whose work continues to transform the novel. |