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Title: Loving/Living/Party Going (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Henry Green, John Uplike, John Updike ISBN: 0-14-018691-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Loving" is one of the better books of the century.
Comment: "Loving" is one of the better books of the century. In prose that is singularly musical, Green limns the lives of the English servant class. Somehow, also, the book is about war, honor, and human love. Please read it-- Green is to good a writer to be ignored.
Rating: 5
Summary: LOVING is one of the best novels I have read
Comment: I have read both of the three-novel volumes published by Penguin, and while I think even the worst of these is at least good, LOVING shines out as one of the best novels that I have ever read. Set in Ireland during WW II and consisting almost entirely of dialogue (no narrative voice worth noting), it tells a poignant yet hopeful story of love in the upper and servant classes of a country castle and estate. The ending is one of the very best that I have encountered, rivaling my other favorite endings (BROTHERS KARAMOZOV, THE WHITE HOTEL, and POSSESSION).
I had serious reservations about the Modern Library list of the 100 Greatest English Novels of the 20th century, but I was delighted to see that they included LOVING.
LIVING is not as strong as the other two books, but PARTY GOING, while not the masterpiece that LOVING is, is nonetheless a very, very fine book indeed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Green tackles the big subjects
Comment: Have you ever sat and thought, man, I wish someone would write a book about living? And possibly loving? Well, Henry Green has gone out and done just that. I had never thought that a book about going to parties might be necessary, but after reading it I think that Mr. Green has indeed performed a valuable service. This wonderful collection of novels is, quite frankly, a comprehensive exploration, and no new books need be written on any of these subjects.
In any case, the writing made my jaw drop in spots, it was so good, and Green way of looking at things is funny and humane while being mercilessly clear-eyed. The only reason I think they've stopped teaching his books in colleges is because they don't have the sort of things one can write papers about: complicated networks of imagery and whatnot that can be dug out of the text and have a title slapped on them. Green's book are too alive to have anything particularly systematic going on in them, while retaining the structure and unity of true works of art. Amazing books, go out and read them.
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Title: The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett, Francine Prose ISBN: 0375754903 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 31 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Under the Net by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 0140014454 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen ISBN: 0385720173 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain ISBN: 0679723250 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Blindness by Henry Green ISBN: 1564782654 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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