|
|
| book details |
Living
By (author) Henry Green
|
| on special |
normal price: R 559.95
Price: R 531.95
|
| book description |
""Living introduced a whole school of proletarian literature, and yet remains apart from, and superior to, any of its followers"" Times Literary Supplement The Duprets, upper-class owners of a Birmingham iron-foundry, struggle to keep the business going in the 1920s, while young Lily Gates keeps house for three men who are employed there: the patriarchal Craigan, who owns the house; her worthless father Joe; and stalwart Jim, who is bashfully courting her. Sensing, however, that life must hold greater excitement than she can hope for in this closed little world, Lily succumbs to the bolder approach of a rival suitor, Bert, who takes her to the pictures and, eventually, to Liverpool with a view to a new life in Canada. Bert is not destined to stay the course, though, and the affair ends in tears. Bravely Lily returns to her threadbare household. ""Living is a book about how people really live: their hopes, but also their compromises and defeats"" Jeremy Treglown ""The best novel of working-class factory life we have"" Walter Allen ""His terrain here is close to D.H. Lawrence's, with the difference that whereas Lawrence escaped from the working class, Green escaped into it...His feat of equilibrium was to show lives whose impoverishment he fully recognized as nevertheless sites of comedy, excitement, complex feeling, and beauty"" John Updike
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Vintage Publishing
Published date | 5 Aug 1991
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 276
Dimensions | 215 x 135 x 16mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 257g
ISBN | 978-0-0027-1184-5
Readership Age |
BISAC | fiction / classics
| other options |
|
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
Our moment has seen the resurgence of an anarchist sensibility, from the uprisings in Seattle in 1999 to the Occupy movement of 2011.
|
|
Carl Morrow
Paperback / softback
176 pages
was: R 320.95
now: R 288.95
|
In this uniquely Southern African book, Carl Morrow and Keith Kirsten guide readers step by step into the magical realms of bonsai as a hobby, horticultural practice and art form.
|
|
André Alexis
Paperback / softback
176 pages
was: R 280.95
now: R 252.95
|
A pack of dogs are granted the power of human thought - but what will it do to them? A surprising and insightful look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.
|
|
|
|
