Living
Henry Green
1929
Around 270 pages
I find Henry Green to be kind of boring and not in the least worthy of a whopping six entries on this List. Even his titles are pretty dull. If I were going to trim the fat here, I would drop this, Loving, and Caught. Oh well, modernism has made me suffer worse than this.
Living tells the tale of several factory workers in Birmingham, England. The narrative mostly focuses on Lily Gates, and her relationship with factory worker Bert Jones. The story reminded me of Sister Carrie, where characters not so subtly "stand" for their demographic. Oh, and he also doesn't use that many articles, in imitation of languages that use them sparsely. Um, okay.
There's nothing glaringly offensive about this novel, just didn't leave much of an impression. Poor Henry, he doesn't get much respect on this blog.
RATING: ***--
Interesting Facts:
There's a deliberate lack of conjunctions to reflect the Birmingham accent.
UP NEXT: The Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.
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