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Back (British Literature)

Henry Green

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One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic—slow, distant, and dreamy—he begins to have trouble telling Rose's half-sister Nancy apart from Rose herself, now buried in the village churchyard. Coping and failing to cope with the quiet realities of daily life, Charley's delusions elevate his timid courtship of a practical and unremarkable young woman into an amnesiac love story both comic and disturbing. A contemporary of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green was one of the greatest English novelists of the twentieth century, and Back is his most haunting and personal work.

Format:

Pages:: 218 pages

Publication:: 1981

Publisher:: Dalkey Archive Press

Edition:: First Dalkey

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1564785440

ISBN13:: 9781564785442

kindle Asin:: B019B6QB4M

Back (British Literature)

Henry Green

3.72/5 (277 ratings)

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One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic—slow, distant, and dreamy—he begins to have trouble telling Rose's half-sister Nancy apart from Rose herself, now buried in the village churchyard. Coping and failing to cope with the quiet realities of daily life, Charley's delusions elevate his timid courtship of a practical and unremarkable young woman into an amnesiac love story both comic and disturbing. A contemporary of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green was one of the greatest English novelists of the twentieth century, and Back is his most haunting and personal work.

Format:

Pages:: 218 pages

Publication:: 1981

Publisher:: Dalkey Archive Press

Edition:: First Dalkey

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1564785440

ISBN13:: 9781564785442

kindle Asin:: B019B6QB4M

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