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Henry Green
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'The most gifted prose writer of his generation' V. S. Pritchett
'Each of Green's books stands apart from the others as a separate feat in itself' Alan Pryce-Jones, Observer
A group of rich, spoiled and idle young people heading off on a winter holiday are stranded at a railway station when their train is delayed by thick, enclosing fog. Party Going describes their four hour wait in a London railway hotel where they shelter from the grim weather and the throngs of workers on the platform below.
'Green's novels are sufficiently unlikle any others, sufficiently assured in their perilous, luminous fullness, to warrant the epithet incomparable...they have become, with time, photographs of a vanished England...Green's human qualities - his love of work and laughter; his absolute empathy; his sense of splendour amid loss - make him a precious witness to any age' John Updike