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Synopsis
Concluding is probably the most lyrical novel by a writer whom Rebecca West has called "the most original" of his time. "Within the compass of a summer's day for all time yet intensely and closely centered upon a particular time and place, we are made aware of man's predicament in a world of transcendent sadness and beauty."—Horizon
"[A] novel of projections, protractions, long shots, and shadows flying ahead, a slow fall. . . . The sinister world of Concluding is . . . beautiful, side-lit and colored like an undersea kingdom."—from the Foreword by Eudora Welty
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About the Author
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was born in 1905 at the family home of his parents, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked at the family engineering firm for most of his life and pursued a parallel career as a novelist. He married in 1928 and had one son. During WWII he served in the London Fire Brigade. He died in December 1973.
Review
“Discomfiting social comedy―think Bunuel meets Forster or Beckett meets Mitford.”
- The New Yorker
“Lush enough to get lost in.”
- The Paris Review
“Green's books live on with ever-brightening intensity”
- The Wall Street Journal
“A novel of projections, protractions, long shots, and shadows flying ahead, a slow fall. Uncommonly close to the quick of experience, the sentences are short but they are glancing―the effect can be magically exhilarating, as when the knife thrower does not pierce but surrounds the living target, and it is the reader whose heart is thereby found. The sinister world of Concluding is beautiful, side-lit and colored like an undersea kingdom.”
- Eudora Welty
“Such rarity, such marvelous originality, intuition, sensuality and finish...”
- John Updike
“The characters and story come alive in an almost incredible way, quite beyond anything achieved by conventional methods of writing.”
- Terry Southern
“The most gifted prose writer of his generation.”
- V.S. Pritchett
“The best English novelist.”
- W. H. Auden
“The freshness and force of the work is somewhat uncanny in his gorgeous, enigmatic Concluding.”
- Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books
“Peculiar and beautiful―I love Concluding for the glorious, syntax-straining sentences that flare out of nowhere, and full of wild energies.”
- Lars Iyer, New Statesman
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- PublisherAugustus m Kelley Pubs
- Publication date1950
- ISBN 10 0678031584
- ISBN 13 9780678031582
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages254
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