Description: Henry Green led a double life. As Henry Yorke, a descendant of the Earl of Hardwicke and Baron Leconfield, he was a wealthy aristocrat, with a family fortune and an engineering plant in the British Midlands, of which he became manager. As Henry Green (the pseudonym he settled on after trying out Henry Browne), he wrote a half dozen of our century's most original and influential novels, including Blindness, Living, Party Going, and Loving -- all of which, with daringly experimental techniques, capture the psychological truth about ordinary life in dramatic, sometimes poignant, and often hilarious ways. Green also formed friendships and rivalries with many of his time's leading literary figures, in England and abroad, including Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, Eudora Welty and Terry Southern. And he led an extravagantly messy personal life.

Jeremy Treglown, the highly praised biographer of Roald Dahl, discusses Green's novels of class in close connection with his life -- his unusual camaraderie with factory workers, his sympathy for servants, his ambivalence about his peers, his drinking, and his extramarital affairs. He also shows how Green's stylistically original portrayal of everyday uncertainties mirrored Henry Yorke's own efforts to understand his weaknesses and the chaotic conduct of his life.

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