One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic - slow, distant, and dreamy - he begins to have trouble telling Rose's half-sister Nancy apart from Rose herself, now buried in the village churchyard. Coping and failing to cope with the quiet realities of daily life, Charley's delusions elevate his timid courtship of a practical and unremarkable young woman into an amnesiac love story both comic and disturbing. A contemporary of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green was one of the greatest English novelists of the twentieth century, and Back is his most haunting and personal work.
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Used availability for Henry Green's Back
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Hardback Editions
December 1946 : Hardback
| Title: Back Author(s):: Henry Green ISBN: 0701200758 / 9780701200756 (UK edition) Publisher: The Hogarth Press Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
Paperback Editions
March 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Back (British Literature Series) Author(s):: Henry Green ISBN: 1564785440 / 9781564785442 (USA edition) Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Availability: Amazon UK Amazon Amazon CA |
February 1998 : Paperback
| Title: Back Author(s):: Henry Green ISBN: 186046369X / 9781860463693 (UK edition) Publisher: Harvill Press Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
April 1981 : Paperback
| Title: Back Author(s):: Henry Green ISBN: 0811207986 / 9780811207980 (USA edition) Publisher: New Directions Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
Kindle Editions
August 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: Back Author(s):: Henry Green ISBN: B005CUS9RE Publisher: Vintage Digital Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
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