Admiring
Stephen Wall, 26 March 1992
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
edited by Matthew Yorke.
Chatto, 302 pp., £18, February 1992,0 7011 3900 5 Show More
edited by Matthew Yorke.
Chatto, 302 pp., £18, February 1992,
“... He went down without a degree, failing to get on both with Anglo-Saxon and with his tutor C.S. Lewis, and understandably preferring to spend every afternoon at the cinema. After Oxford, Henry Yorke (to use his proper name) spent two years on the shop floor in the family engineering firm H. Pontifex and Sons. This led to the appearance of Living, his novel ... ”