Loving
Henry Green
1945
Around 225 pages
We have another Henry Green novel with vague title, guaranteed to fade from my memory after a few weeks. He's like the guy at the party that you always end up talking to because you are both awkward, but you have nothing to talk to him about.
The Tennants have amscrayed from their Irish country house during World War II, leaving their servants to play the Game of Thrones. Well, that's dramatizing it slightly, but they do wage their own private battles with each other while the fate of the world hangs in balance in the background.
Another Green novel where the premise is interesting and the writing is just kind of meh. I like the idea of a novel being mostly dialogue, but nobody was saying anything too insightful. Realistic, true, but not very engaging.
RATING: ***--
Interesting Facts:
Included in TIME's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
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