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Living (Vintage Classics) New Edition, Kindle Edition

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LIVING, as an early novel, marks the beginning of Henry Green's career as a writer who made his name by exploring class distinctions through the medium of love. Set in an iron foundry in Birmingham, LIVING grittily and entertainingly contrasts the lives of the workers and the owners

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""Loving" stands, together with "Living," as the masterpiece of this disciplined, poetic and grimly realistic, witty and melancholy, amorous and austere voluptuary--comic, richly entertaining--haunting and poetic--writer." - "TLS" "Green's works live with ever-brightening intensity--it's like dancing with Nijinsky or Astaire, who lead you effortlessly on." - "The Wall Street Journal" "Green's novels-- have become, with time, photographs of a vanished England--Green's human qualities - his love of work and laughter; his absolute empathy; his sense of splendour amid loss - make him a precious witness to any age." - John Updike "Green's books are solid and glittering as gems." - Anthony Burgess

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Living, as an early novel, marks the beginning of Henry Green's career as a writer who made his name by exploring class distinctions through the medium of love. Set in an iron foundry in Birmingham, Living grittily and entertainingly contrasts the lives of the workers and the owners.

'His novels made more of an impact on me than those of any writer living or dead.' John Updike.

'Green's books remain solid and glittering as gems ... They are not, like so many contemporary novels, mere slices of life but highly successful attempts at making art give meaning to life.' Anthony Burgess

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004J4VZA2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Digital; New edition (18 Jan. 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1313 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • Customer reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2008
    I love this book. I'm awed by the love in it and the strange description and the dialogue caught so faithfully. It's set in Birmingham among factory workers in the late 1920s. This is a passage from it:

    'Then, one morning in iron foundry, Arthur Jones began singing. He did not often sing. When he began the men looked up from work and at each other and stayed quiet. In machine shop, which was next iron foundry, they said it was Arthur singing and stayed quiet also. He sang all morning.

    He was Welsh and he sang in Welsh. His voice had a great soft yell in it. It rose and fell and then rose again and, when the crane was quiet for a moment, then his voice came out from behind noise of crane in passionate singing. Soon each one in this factory heard that Arthur had begun and, if he had 2 moments, came by iron foundry shop to listen. So all through that morning, as he went on, was a little group of men standing by door in the machine shop, always different men. His singing made them all sad. Everything in iron foundries is black with burnt sand and here was his silver voice yelling like bells. The black grimed men bent over their black boxes....

    Everyone looked forward to Arthur's singing, each one was glad when he sang, only, this morning, Jim Dale had bitterness inside him like girders and when Arthur began singing his music was like acid to that man and it was like that girder was being melted and bitterness and anger decrystallised, up rising in him till he was full and would have broken out - when he put on his coat and walked off and went into town and drank....

    Still Arthur sang and it might be months before he sang again. And no one else sang that day, but all listened to his singing. That night son had been born to him.'

    Weird but beautiful I think and I could quote passage after passage. I can't understand why everyone doesn't feel the same.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2020
    You are thrown into a dense narrative which slowly clears and the voices of Birmingham industry shine through. The book feels important and is truly modern. A good route into Henry Green. Nice edition too.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2000
    Until last year I'd never heard of him, but apparently Green was considered the best of his generation: his writing is - if you persevere - approachable but never easy, his insight is unique and revealing but never predictable...; he's Hardy without the Definite Article. Try him (...a small price to change your view of literature forever), and I'd be interested in your views: anyone for a Green revival?
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  • Wayne J. Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Christopher Isherwood described Living as the best proletarian novel ever written and both were right
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 July 2017
    Evelyn Waugh, himself a genius, described Henry Green as a genius; Christopher Isherwood described Living as the best proletarian novel ever written and both were right. This is a beautiful and moving novel.
  • Barry S. Yorysh
    3.0 out of 5 stars Hailed by his contemporaries
    Reviewed in the United States on 11 January 2018
    The authors contemporaries hailed the book. Henry Green does not tell how the characters feel or how they sound when writing dialog. He makes it difficult to know who is talking. The ending is unsatisfying. The is my opinion and the consensus of my 8 member book club.

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