{"product_id":"living-9781681370682","title":"Living","description":"\u003cb\u003eA timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England's working class\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving is a book about life in a factory town and the operations of a factory, from the workers on the floor to the boss in his office. The town is Birmingham and the factory is an iron foundry, like the one that Henry Green worked in for some time in the 1920s after dropping out of Oxford, and the stories--courtships, layoffs, getting dinner on the table, going to the pub, death--are all the ordinary stuff of life. The style, however, is pure Henry Green, at once starkly constrained and wildly streaked with the expedients and eccentricities of everyday speech--clich  and innuendo, clashing metaphors, slips of tongue--which is to say it is like nothing else. Epic and antic, \u003ci\u003eLiving\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of exact observation and deep tenderness, the work, in Rosamond Lehmann's words, of an \"amorous and austere voluptuary\" whose work continues to transform the novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Green\u003c\/b\u003e (1905-1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become the managing director of his family's engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eBlindness\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), was written while he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the Auxiliary Fire Service. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels--\u003ci\u003eBlindness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiving\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParty Going\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaught\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBack\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConcluding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNothing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDoting\u003c\/i\u003e--and a memoir, \u003ci\u003ePack My Bag\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdam Thirlwell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three novels, \u003ci\u003ePolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Escape\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLurid \u0026amp; Cute\u003c\/i\u003e; a novella, \u003ci\u003eKapow!\u003c\/i\u003e; an essay-book, \u003ci\u003eThe Delighted States\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; and a compendium of translations edited for \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney\u003c\/i\u003e's. He has twice been selected as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of Young British Novelists, and was the recipient of the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2015.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50676641530130,"sku":"9781681370682","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2145f6c0-05af-4e19-b7ae-e8b1e99aa341.jpg?v=1733885532","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/living-9781681370682","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}