Back

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Back
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Henry Green
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 134
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781860463693
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint The Harvill Press
Publication Date 19 February 1998
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Back is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of Green's most haunting, elegiac novels and one of the most enduring to have focused on the individual human tragedy of the war.

Author Biography

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