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by Henry Green

Book Overview

One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic—slow,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681370107
• ISBN13: 9781681370101
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Roses around the headstones

Two quick but more or less final conclusions on finishing this quietly devastating English novel from 1946: You are never once allowed to forget that you are reading words intricately and even eccentrically arranged by the inimitable Henry Green. Yet the quixotically deranged character of one-legged Charley Summers is rendered so vividly and so indelibly as to make the writing appear all but invisible.