Product Description

Blinded in an accident on his way home from boarding school, John Haye must reevaluate his life and the possibilities for his future. His stepmother worried that, blind and dependent, he'll spend his life with her wants to marry him off to anyone who will take him, provided she's of the "right" social class. Contrary to her hopes, John falls in love with the daughter of the town drunk (who is also the town parson). She whisks John off to London, where in this strange city he is confined to a room above a major thoroughfare while she gets on with her life.Blindness was first published when Henry Green was an undergraduate at Oxford. Highly praised as a master of high-modernism, Green went on to write eight other novels, including Concluding and Doting.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1645098 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .60" h x 5.53" w x 8.51" l, .58 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 214 pages

From Library Journal
Written in 1926 and 1952, respectively, these are Green's first and last books. Both ponder the nature of love among the upper class. Blindness follows young John Haye, who is blinded in an accident. His mother wishes to palm him off on anyone who'll take him, but when he falls for a poor girl, it's quite a different matter. Doting portrays a couple in a loveless marriage. Husband Arthur becomes infatuated with a younger girl, which sets events in motion.
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Review
Green belongs to the mad tradition in English literature Sterne, Carroll, Firbank, and Mrs. Woolf.--V. S. Pritchett

Angus Wilson, OBSERVER
"Henry Green remains one of the few really considerable English novelists of our time."