Admiring
Stephen Wall, 26 March 1992
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
edited by Matthew Yorke.
Chatto, 302 pp., £18, February 1992,0 7011 3900 5 Show More
edited by Matthew Yorke.
Chatto, 302 pp., £18, February 1992,
“... that the gift of celebrating place had not been altogether lost. By 1960 Green was confessing to Alan Ross that he found composition ‘so exhausting now I simply can’t do it any more’. He was not in good shape physically, was troubled by his increasing deafness, and the steady intake of gin can’t have helped. Even so, he continued to read a novel ... ”