Living (NYRB Classics)

Living (NYRB Classics)

A timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and consideredÂ one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England's working class

LivingÂ is a book about life in a factory town and the operations of a factory, from the workers onÂ the floor to the boss in his office. The town is Birmingham and the factory is an iron foundry,Â like the one that Henry Green worked in for some time in the 1920s after dropping out of Oxford,Â and the storiesâ€”courtships, layoffs, getting dinner on the table, going to the pub, deathâ€”are allÂ the ordinary stuff of life. The style, however, is pure Henry Green, at once starkly constrainedÂ and wildly streaked with the expedients and eccentricities of everyday speechâ€”clichÃ© andÂ innuendo, clashing metaphors, slips of tongueâ€”which is to say it is like nothing else. Epic andÂ antic,Â LivingÂ is a book of exact observation and deep tenderness, the work, in RosamondÂ Lehmannâ€™s words, of an â€œamorous and austere voluptuaryâ€ whose work continues to transformÂ the novel.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color White
ReleaseDate 2017-04-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681370682