Adam Thirlwell

Henry Green

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I think I can officially say Henry Green is one of my favorite writers. He manages to bring out the beauty in everyday life, even in an environment bleak as industrial Birmingham, even in a story about the loss of love. He vindicates life through art under even sad circumstances. And his characters are real people: he makes these people so vivid by going into their heads and still not really knowing what they're thinking. It's brilliant.

One thing I would recommend is to pay attention while reading his novels. The sentences may be short and clipped at times, but all of them are dense and the meaning is left for you to find out.

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