Loving, Living and Party Going
Book description
Henry Green explored class distinctions through the medium of love. This volume brings together three of his novels contrasting the lives of servants and masters (Loving); workers and owners, set in a Birmingham iron foundry (Living); and the different lives of the wealthy and the ordinary, (Party Going).
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1 author picked Loving, Living and Party Going as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is an omnibus of three novels. But they are often published together and so I feel justified in regarding it as ‘one’ book.
Every so often we discover a unique voice with a distinctive style that bowls us over. Henry Green has been a revelation to me. His novels are unusual and I can understand how they might be regarded as an acquired taste, but I immediately was captivated by the way he tells his stories. And they are hardly stories in the conventional sense. They are barrages of life, messy real life populated with characters who almost…
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