Caught - Brossura

Green, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860468314 ISBN 13: 9781860468315

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2001

Riassunto

When the war breaks out, Rose, 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

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In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, gossip spreads like wildfire and the lives of two men are torn apart.

When war breaks out, Roe, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteeers for the Auxiliary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that quite a 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. As each of them grapples with his own troubled emotional attachments, the one to his son and dead wife, the other to his unhappy sister, their relationship intensifies. The inevitable crisis sparks when, just as in the World War raging around them, history shows signs of repeating itself.

"A strange, sombre story with moments of almost melodramatic intensity, invoking the very special ambience of wartime London" Brian Fallon, Irish Times

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1860468314
• ISBN 13: 9781860468315
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 206