Doting by Henry Green (English) Paperback Book

Description: Doting by Henry Green, Michael Gorra First published: The Hogarth Press, 1952. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Doting, the last of Henry Greens novels, is, as its title would suggest, a story of yearning and lusting and aging in which a wife and a brash young woman run hilarious circles around a hapless hardworking civil servant suddenly seized by long-dormant urges. Like its immediate predecessor, Nothing, it stands out from the rest of Greens work in its brilliant, experimental use of dialogue. Green was fascinated with the extravagance, ambiguity, absurdity, and unintentional implications and consequences of everyday human communication, and in Doting language slips and slides the better to reveal the absurdity and persistence of love and desire, exciting laughter while troubling the heart. Author Biography Henry Green (1905–1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become the managing director of his familys engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel, Blindness (1926), was written while he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the Auxiliary Fire Service. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels—Blindness, Living, Party Going, Caught, Loving, Back, Concluding, Nothing, and Doting—and a memoir, Pack My Bag. Michael Gorra is the author of, among other books, The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany and Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches English at Smith College. Review "The intelligence, the blazing gifts of imagery, dialogue, construction, and form, the power to feel both what can and what never can be said, give Henry Greens work an intensity greater . . . than that of any other writer of imaginative fiction today. . . . His remains the most interesting and vital imagination in English fiction in our time." —Eudora Welty "The sincere and almost religious conviction of the primacy of guilt in human relations is one of Greens most fruitful sources of inspiration, and he forcefully develops it in Doting and Nothing, his last, great, and dismally underrated novels." —Brooke Allen, The New Criterion "In all of [Greens] 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 [him] is to find oneself in the presence of rare genius, fit to sit along Woolf, Fitzgerald and Joyce on anyones shelf of classics. Henry Green is here to stay." —David Wright, The Seattle Times"Mr. Green possesses perhaps the most accurate ear of any contemporary novelist.... Doting is a masterly exercise in technique.... It has some of the best moments of comedy Mr. Green has yet written." —The Times Literary Supplement"The formidable author...has set out to write a funny book in Doting, and he has succeeded." —John Betjeman, The Daily Telegraph"Nothing and Doting...actually display something close to old-fashioned formal perfection." —Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review"A skillful intaglio of inconstancy which is pleasantly deft and devious." —Kirkus Reviews"And in their sheer absurdity Nothing and Doting are two of the funniest novels ever written, bringing to an almost abstract essence the humor that had always been woven through Greens work." —The Atlantic Review Quote "Mr. Green possesses perhaps the most accurate ear of any contemporary novelist.... Details ISBN1681371413 Author Michael Gorra Short Title DOTING Pages 208 Language English ISBN-10 1681371413 ISBN-13 9781681371412 Format Paperback DEWEY 823.914 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-10-17 Imprint NYRB Classics Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2017-10-17 NZ Release Date 2017-10-17 US Release Date 2017-10-17 UK Release Date 2017-10-17 Place of Publication New York Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137825733;

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