Surviving: Stories, Essays, Interviews

By Henry Green

Book Overview

A collection of short stories, journalism pieces, and various writings by the esteemed twentieth-century English novelist Henry Green.

Surviving presents a miscellany of Henry Green's writing, and is as reflective of his extraordinary and unclassifiable genius for the word as any of his great novels from Living to Loving to Nothing. Readers will find remarkable stories from the 1920s and 1930s; Green's telling of his time in the London Fire Brigade during the Blitz; a short, unpublished play, Journey out of Spain; journalism; and the hilarious interview that Terry Southern conducted for The Paris Review. Edited by the novelist Matthew Yorke, Green's grandson, Surviving also includes a memoir by Green's son, Sebastian Yorke, that is a brilliant portrait of this maverick master.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681374129
• ISBN13: 9781681374123
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Lessons From The Writer's Writer

Henry Green is often said to be a "writer's writer," and Terry Southern even said Green was a "writer's writer's writer" (very clever!). Well, this is a book specifically for writers, I believe. This collection has many examples of Green's prose in its more experimental, work in progress (ie. rejected / unpublished) forms - which I found fascinating. In addition to that there are essays and interviews wherein Green specifically teaches us about the details of writing - the use and importance of dialogue, for example. Some sections of this book seem like writing lessons by the master. So this informative book boils down to treatise on the craft and theory of writing. Having read this collection immediately after finishing his biography (*Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green,* Jeremy Treglown) I feel filled to the brim with Henry Green and need to start reading the Green novels I haven't yet read. This book is highly recommended for writers who love Green's books, not necessarily for readers who simply loved *Party Going* and *Living* who have no aspirations to write.