Caught - Brossura

Green, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0002711605 ISBN 13: 9780002711609

Casa editrice: Harvill Press, 1991

Riassunto

When the war breaks out, Roe, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteers for the Auxiliary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that a quite different link already exists between them: it was Pye's strange, disturbed sister who once upon a time abducted Christopher and kept him in her room until Pye rescued the terrified child. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz the relationship between the two men develops as each of them grapples with his own troubled emotional attachments, the one to his dead wife, the other to his unhappy sister. Inevitably matters come to a head when history shows signs of repeating itself. The subtle handling of relationships, the brilliance of the dialogue and description - including one of the best accounts ever written of London under the Blitz - established Caught as one of Henry Green's most powerful novels.

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L'autore:

Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born in 1905 near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become managing director of an engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel, Blindness (1926) was written whilst he was still at school and published whilst he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the London Fire Brigade. 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. Henry Green died in December 1973

Dalla quarta di copertina:

"This is Mr Green's best book...Must be read by anyone who claims a serious interest in the novel." Alan Pryce-Jones, Observer

When the war breaks out, Roe, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteers for the Auxiliary Fire Service in London, and is trained under the a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that a quite different link already exists between them: it was Pye's strange, disturbed sister who once upon a time abducted Christopher and kept him in her room until Pye rescued the terrified child. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz the relationship between the two men develops as each of them grapples with his own troubled emotional attachments, the one to his dead wife, the other to his unhappy sister. Inevitably matters come to head when history shows signs of repeating itself. The subtle handling of relationships, the brillance of the dialogue and description - including one of the best accounts ever written of London under the Blitz - establish Caught as one of Henry Green's most powerful novels.

"Excellently told, entirely original, and in its own way, remarkably satisfying." Margery Allingham, Time and Tide

"An ambitious and original writer, with a feeling for symbolism and experiment which he employs with great honesty and power. His account of the first fire blitz is terrific." John Hampson, Spectator

"Should be read by anyone who believes that the English novel has died a natural death." Philip Toynbee, New Statesman

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• Editore: Harvill Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0002711605
• ISBN 13: 9780002711609
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile