{"product_id":"loving-isbn-9781681370149","title":"Loving","description":"\u003cb\u003eDrama unfolds between the servants and masters of an aristocratic Irish household in this “classic upstairs-downstairs story” set during World War II—for fans of \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The war has led to a scarcity of experienced staff at the vast hereditary house of an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. When Eldon the butler dies, Raunce—the head footman—is assigned his job. The other servants are taken aback by this irregular promotion, but lovely young Edith, a recent hire, is quite attracted to the\u003cbr\u003e older Raunce and a flirtation begins. And it is Edith who discovers Mrs. Tennant’s daughter-in-law, whose husband is fighting at the front, in bed with a neighbor one morning, scandalizing the whole household.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When the Tennants depart for England, Raunce is left in charge of the house and struggles to control its disputatious inhabitants as well as to secure the love of Edith, especially after a precious family jewel disappears. In \u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Green explores the deeply precarious nature of ordinary life against the background of the larger world at war.“No English novel of the 1940s has better stood the test of time. Indeed \u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e has gathered power, the way photographs and very few novels do, simply by outlasting the people in it. The characters we meet seem so real, so attended to, so beautifully themselves, that it is a question whether we can forgive them for ever having to die.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lorin Stein, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e is dominated by what it excludes—as much by the war as by the interior lives of its characters. For both the war and the interior life remain a void within the novel, which Green’s setting and style allow him to skirt while making us aware that he skirts them. In that, the novel\u003cbr\u003e stands as perhaps the purest example of the art of exclusion, suggesting the impossibility of seeing life steady and seeing it whole.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Gorra\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a masterpiece like \u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e . . . Green was able so exquisitely to modulate his idiom to suit his glorious and trivial subject.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brooke Allen, \u003ci\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“He brings pleasure—a pleasure more intense, more original, more rewarding than that offered by any of his contemporaries . . . This writer is unique. No fiction has ever thrilled me in the same way as the great moments in\u003ci\u003e Living\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e; I have been moved by Tolstoy, Lawrence, Proust and others, perhaps more so, but not in the same way.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sebastian Faulk, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic upstairs-downstairs story, with the emphasis on downstairs . . . Green's generosity towards even the most scheming and rascally of them offers a lesson you never forget.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Richard Lacayo, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Green’s keen ear for dialogue and lightness of touch are absolutely masterful, and it is my sincere hope that we will not lose this hilarious, challenging, delightful little book again.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hal Hlavinka,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Loving’s drama (and its comedy, too) is the anarchy of uncertainty . . . serves nicely as a parable for our liminal political moment.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dan Piepenbring\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“In all of these novels we are made aware of the most profound and surprising truths about life, love and the human heart without being able to pinpoint any one page, line, or moment of epiphany. To read all three back-to-back is to find oneself in the presence of rare genius, fit to sit along Woolf, Fitzgerald and Joyce on anyone’s shelf of classics. Henry Green is here to stay.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Wright\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“This new edition . . . is cause for celebration . . . [Green] wriggles free of categories, the true strangeness of his prose not always evident until we slow down to see it has been hiding in plain sight.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dorian Stube\u003ci\u003er, \u003ci\u003eNumero Cinq\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Green\u003c\/b\u003e (1905–1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become the managing director of his family’s engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel,  \u003ci\u003eBlindness\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), was written while he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the Auxiliary Fire Service. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels, \u003ci\u003eBlindness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiving\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParty Going\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaught\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBack\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConcluding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNothing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDoting\u003c\/i\u003e, and a memoir,\u003ci\u003e Pack My Bag\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRoxana Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight works of fiction, including the novels \u003ci\u003eCost\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSparta\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eGeorgia O’Keeffe: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she edited \u003ci\u003eThe New York Stories of Edith Wharton\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote the introduction to Elizabeth Taylor’s \u003ci\u003eA View of the Harbour\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by NYRB Classics. Robinson is currently the president of the Authors Guild.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305298383077,"sku":"NP9781681370149","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681370149.jpg?v=1767731930","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/loving-isbn-9781681370149","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}