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By Henry Green
Introduction by Deborah Eisenberg
By Henry Green
Introduction by Deborah Eisenberg
By Henry Green
Introduction by Deborah Eisenberg
By Henry Green
Introduction by Deborah Eisenberg
Category: Military Fiction | Literary Fiction
Category: Military Fiction | Literary Fiction
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$14.00
Oct 18, 2016 | ISBN 9781681370101
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Oct 18, 2016 | ISBN 9781681370118
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Praise
“Henry Green is nearer than almost any other to the spirit and what one might call the central nerve of our time.” —Elizabeth Bowen
“Green questions what it could mean to come ‘back’ from a war that hasn’t ended in reality or memory. In this quick and engrossing novel, Green reveals that living and loving are more about embracing failures and making frequent recalibrations than striving toward unattainable ideals.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“To describe his scenes as having the visual clarity of the best movie shots does not convey their peculiar quality of hallucination. To say that his plots are hinged on certain fatal situations from myth and fable does not carry over Green’s feeling for our particular fate in modern life, or the compulsive fears and anxieties of his characters for their modern fate, especially for organizations represented by initials.” —Mark Schorer, The New York Times Book Review
“Back is Henry Green’s most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted—and haunted.” —Jeremy Treglown
“Writing that shines with wit and good humor.” —Time
The skillful coupling of love talk and office terminology, the dexterous handling of characters who seem at first glance to be picked bone clean but who turn into cream, and the view of a world just a little off center make Back a delightful, wispy and original experience.
—Kirkus
In all of these novels we are made aware of the most profound and surprising truths about life, love and the human heart without being able to pinpoint any one page, line, or moment of epiphany. To read all three back-to-back is to find oneself in the presence of rare genius, fit to sit along Woolf, Fitzgerald and Joyce on anyone’s shelf of classics. Henry Green is here to stay.
—David Wright, The Seattle Times
A spare and eventually incredibly moving story of hope lost and regained, and of scars that never fully heal.
—John Williams, “The Book Reader,” NY1
“The skillful coupling of love talk and office terminology, the dexterous handling of characters who seem at first glance to be picked bone clean but who turn into cream, and the view of a world just a little off center make Back a delightful, wispy and original experience.” —Kirkus
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