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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Henry Vincent Yorke
Henry Green foi o pseudônimo de Henry Vincent Yorke. Nascido perto de Tewkesbury, em Gloucestershire, Inglaterra, ele estudou em Eton e Oxford e se tornou o diretor administrativo do negócio de engenharia de sua família, escrevendo romances em seu tempo livre. Seu primeiro romance, Blindness (1926), foi escrito enquanto ele estava em Oxford. Ele se casou em 1929 e teve um filho, e durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial serviu no Auxiliary Fire Service. Entre 1926 e 1952, ele escreveu nove romances - Blindness, Living, Party Going, Caught, Loving, Back, Concluding, Nothing, e Doting—além do livro de memórias Pack My Bag.
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Gloucestershire, Inglaterra