Back - Softcover

Back

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. NDP517. Second Printing, a Revived Modern Classic. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "The compassionate yet detached regard that is Henry Green's hallmark is especially apparent in his gentle novel BACK. We first meet Charley Summers in the rose-covered graveyard of a London suburb. World War II continues, while Charley hobbles along on a peg leg 'for not noticing the gun beneath a rose.' He is searching despondently for the grave of his love, who died while he was away and whose name, 'of all names was Rose.' [] This wry, modern romance of the rose is fractured by bomb alerts, and the wary hero has sickened not so much from love as from shell shock. He spends his days doggedly recording orders for an engineering plant that lost its factory in the blitz and his evenings in desultory conversation with his landlady. His few friendships--with a philandering fellow amputee, with Rose's shrewd but kindly husband and her ailing parents, the Grants--survive mainly for old time's sake. But when Mr. Grant puts Charley in touch with Rose's half sister, the young man becomes obsessed with the delusion that she is really Rose, alive but disguised, and all his lurking energies are mobilized in attempts to make her share his version of reality." [publisher copy] ". . . a rich, touching story flecked all over by Mr. Green's intuition of the concealed originality of ordinary human beings."--V.S. Pritchett, The New York Times. "Green questions what it could mean to come 'back' from a war that hasn't ended in reality or memory. In this quick and engrossing novel, Green reveals that living and loving are more about embracing failures and making frequent recalibrations than striving toward unattainable ideals. . . The skillful coupling of love talk and office terminology, the dexterous handling of characters who seem at first glance to be picked bone clean but who turn into cream, and the view of a world just a little off center make BACK a delightful, wispy and original experience."--Kirkus Reviews. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine; the actual book cover features a b&w photograph of a British country graveyard. Quite presentable. Artikel-Nr. RUB3057

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