Henry Green considered Concluding the finest of all his books
Concluding―set in a single summer day―has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl’s boarding school. Living with him is Elizabeth, his somewhat unstrung granddaughter; his white cat; his white goose; and Daisy, his white pig. Miss Edge and Miss Baker―the two inseparable spinster harpies who run the school―scheme to dislodge him from the cottage. Concluding opens with the discovery that two of the schoolgirls have vanished in the night: searching, eavesdropping, worrying, jostling, and giggling all ensue. A love affair, a dance, that magnificent pig, small joys, and low ambitions all stream together, crowding up to the reader’s eye, as Henry Green brews up an enchanting, heartbreaking, and darkly sunny novel."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Henry Green (1905–1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become the managing director of his family’s engineering business, writing nine novels in his spare time. Anthony Burgess found his books “as solid and glittering as gems.” He also wrote an astonishing memoir, Pack My Bag, published by New Directions.
Eudora Welty (1909–2001), the great novelist and short-story writer, won the Pulitzer Prize and believed that “all serious daring starts from within.”
“A darkly comic romp of rare intensity that confounds as much as it astounds.”
- Star Tribune
“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
“Henry Green’s silences are instruments of sublime communication.”
- Becca Rothfeld, Times Literary Supplement
“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
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
US$ 3.75
Within U.S.A.
Shipping:
US$ 5.00
Within U.S.A.
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. Seller Inventory # S_393492785
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5. Seller Inventory # G0811227006I3N00
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Spike706, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Minor read/shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 2311230017
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: VanderMeer Creative, Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Advance Proof. Seller Inventory # 000285
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Seller Inventory # 46463830-75
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. Seller Inventory # S_412386296
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR013874543
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 0.6. Seller Inventory # 0811227006-2-4
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.6. Seller Inventory # 0811227006-2-3
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 0.6. Seller Inventory # bk0811227006xvz189zvxgdd
Quantity: 1 available