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by Henry Green Yorke

Novel of a disabled veteran's return to London after war, seeking meaning and human connection

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Henry Green Yorke

Henry Green was one of the most original and idiosyncratic English novelists of the mid-twentieth century, whose oblique, highly stylised prose captured working-class and upper-class life with equal originality. Living is a landmark in working-class fiction.

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