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Under the Garden (Penguin 60s)
A dying man reflects on a moment from his childhood. 'Under the Garden' originally appeared in A Sense of Reality.
Paperback, 87 pages
Published
September 1st 1995
by Penguin
(first published 1963)
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After attending a funeral for a family member,
I endured some satanic version of the flu. While
recovering I picked up this story in which a 'dying
man reflects on a moment from his childhood'.
I could only think it was entirely appropriate in
regards to the funeral, and perhaps an omen as to
how I was then feeling taking my prescriptions.
The story's protagonist, WW, forgoes the Doctor's
orders of immediate surgery, which may save him, or
...more
I love this piece of weird, bonkers literary drug trip ... It's scary in places, halarious in places, and plain old fashioned *strange* in most of the rest.
Listen to the Kenneth Brenaugh audio version and add even more fun. :)
Listen to the Kenneth Brenaugh audio version and add even more fun. :)
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Puzzling and, in places, disturbing and startlingly adult--just as half-remembered dreams from childhood are.
A weird and wondrous recollection of a childhood dream. A lovely rainy Sunday read.
This is by far my favorite short story, even better than the dozens of Kipling's fighting it out for second place and the more dozens (mainly Tanith Lee, Lovecraft and Sherman Alexie) swarming around third. It will make your brain hurt but good. Like Graham Greene's novels, the theme is hopelessness and the determination to hold on to what is precious despite everything. He makes the depressing invigorating.
This was so MYSTICAL and strange that I had my dad read it and my brother. They, too, felt the same eerie feeling. My brother wrote to me and saaid that he, too, had the same feeling. TRY IT!
A dying man revisits his childhood, and ponders on a dream from the past. The dream is powerful enough to be remembered and influenced by however, Greene falters on recapturing the innocence of youth and the magic that could have been under the garden.
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Graham Greene was an English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenplay writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity.
Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a “Catholic novelist” rather than as a “novelist who happened to be Cath...more
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