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Jul 15, 2012
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I have only completed the story "Loving" within this collection. These stories actually have more the pace and length of novellas. I was glad to be introduced to Henry Green with his odd, detached, often grim voice. His writing has a unique energy, which often bursts forth during subdued passages of the story. Much of "Loving" is told from the perspective of the "downstairs" inhabitants of an Anglo-Irish estate during World War II. Green is a writer who does not lamely explain things to the read
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