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Romancing: the life and work of Henry Green
Treglown, Jeremy 
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN10: 0571168981 ISBN13: 9780571168989 DDC: 823.912

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"Romancing tells the story of a man once described as possessing 'a strange mix of dash and melancholy', who listed just one recreation in Who's Who: 'romancing over the bottle, to a good band'. It explores his aristocratic upbringing; his time at Oxford, where his contemporaries included Evelyn Waugh and his tutor was C. S. Lewis; his period as a firefighter in the Blitz; his flirtations; his final years as a recluse; and above all his writing." "Part of the fascination of Henry Green's life stems from its juxtaposition of very different periods of history - from the 'Brideshead Generation' to the Blitz. This long-awaited biography also provides an assessment of Green's achievement as a novelist who wrote incomparably about the lives of working people as well as the upper classes during a period of convulsive social change." "In this account of his life, biographer Jeremy Treglown explores the psychological interplay between Henry Green the author and Henry Yorke the man."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-286) and index.

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