Living

Name: Living
Author: Henry Green Yorke

by Henry Green Yorke

Novel set in industrial Birmingham exploring the interior lives of factory workers and their dreams

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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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