GREEN, Henry.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Loving. First edition, scarce in the jacket designed by John Piper. The novel concerns class the owners and staff of an Irish country house during the Second World War. An adaptation for television was produced by the BBC in 1996, starring Mark Rylance and Georgina Cates.Green's "three novels Caught (1943), Loving (1945), and Back (1946) deal with different aspects of life on the home front; with the blitz, evacuation, and demobilization, respectively... All three books register shocks to the psychological and social systems, but in Loving in particular the sense of foreboding is offset by passages of brilliant and enlivening prose, frequently of an erotic character" (ODNB).

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