Loving - Brossura

Green, Henry

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ISBN 10: 168137014X ISBN 13: 9781681370149

Casa editrice: New York Review of Books, 2016

Riassunto

<i>Loving</i> is set in the vast hereditary house of the Tennants, an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, but the story mainly involves their servants. The war has led to a scarcity of experienced staff, and when Eldon the butler dies, Raunce the head footman is assigned his job. The other servants are taken aback by this irregular promotion, but lovely young Edith, a recent hire, is quite attracted to the<br> older Raunce and a flirtation begins. And it is Edith who discovers Mrs. Tennant&rsquo;s daughter-in-law, whose husband is fighting at the front, in bed with a neighbor one morning, scandalizing the whole household.<br><br> When the Tennants depart for England, Raunce is left in charge of the house and struggles to control its disputatious inhabitants as well as to secure the love of Edith, especially after a precious family jewel disappears. In <i>Loving</i>, Henry Green explores the deeply precarious nature of ordinary life against the background of the larger world at war.

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<b>Henry Green</b> (1905&ndash;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 family&rsquo;s engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel,&#160; <i>Blindness</i> (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, <i>Blindness</i>, <i>Living</i>, <i>Party Going</i>, <i>Caught</i>, <i>Loving</i>, <i>Back</i>, <i>Concluding</i>, <i>Nothing</i>, and <i>Doting</i>, and a memoir,<i> Pack My Bag</i>.&#160;<br><br> <b>Roxana Robinson</b> is the author of eight works of fiction, including the novels <i>Cost</i> and <i>Sparta</i>. She is also the author of <i>Georgia O&rsquo;Keeffe: A Life</i>. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she edited <i>The New York Stories of Edith Wharton</i> and wrote the introduction to Elizabeth Taylor&rsquo;s <i>A View of the Harbour</i>, both published by NYRB Classics. Robinson is currently the president of the Authors Guild.

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 family’s 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. 

Roxana Robinson is the author of eight works of fiction, including the novels Cost and Sparta. She is also the author of Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she edited The New York Stories of Edith Wharton and wrote the introduction to Elizabeth Taylor’s A View of the Harbour, both published by NYRB Classics. Robinson is currently the president of the Authors Guild.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Review of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 168137014X
• ISBN 13: 9781681370149
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 209
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