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Paperback Party Going Book

ISBN: 1681370700

ISBN13: 9781681370705

Party Going

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A modernist "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby

Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green's darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the "low dishonest decade" of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fog. Traffic has come to a halt. Stranded in the train station and the hotel connected to it are a group of...

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Foggy Notion

The same words crop up again and again but the effect is always one of surprising emotional momentum. The class angle is something of a dead pigeon too as far as I can make out, the comedy here seems so much bigger than that. This is in fact the type of writing that takes the utmost care of itself, I think that's a given, and the characters themselves, well there they are waiting for you the readers to decide just exactly how fog-bound a party either you or they really are. I'll show my own hand right up front by saying the plight of Miss Fellowes as rendered by Mister Green is for me a darkly original twitch upon a tragicomical thread.
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