Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait
In 1938 Henry Green, then thirty-three, dreaded the coming war and decided to put down what comes to mind before one is killed. Pack My Bag was published in England in 1940. When he wrote it, Green had already published three of his nine novels and his stylea gathering web of insinuationswas fully developed.Pack My Bag is a marvelously quirky, clear-eyed memoir: a mother who shot at mangle wurzels (turnips) bowled across the lawn for her by the servants; the stately home packed with wounded World War I soldiers; the miseries of Eton, oddities of Oxford, and work in the family factory-the making of a brilliantly original novelist. We have inhe…
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Weitere Autoren: Yorke, Sebastian (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1572-5
- EAN: 9780811215725
- Produktnummer: 19443969
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B13.5 cm x D1.6 cm 240 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 240
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Henry Green (1905-1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become the managing director of his family's engineering business, writing nine novels in his spare time. Anthony Burgess found his books as solid and glittering as gems. He also wrote an astonishing memoir, Pack My Bag, published by New Directions.
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