Henry Green: Havoc in the House of Fiction

by Peter Wolfe

By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so with Henry Green (1905-1973). He prefers uncertainty over reason and fragmentation over cohesion, and rarely lets the reader settle into a nice cozy read. Evil, he suggests, can be as instructive as good. Through Green's use of paradoxical and ambiguous language, his novels bring texture to the flatness of life,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476671117
• ISBN13: 9781476671116
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher