Henry Green (a pen name used by Henry Vincent Yorke) was an English writer of nine novels between 1926 and 1952. His second, Living (1929), is centered around an iron foundry in Birmingham, and concerned primarily with the lives of the workers and their families, though Green, whose father was a landowner and industrialist in the same city, does include a character named Dick Dupret, whose ailing father owns the fictional factory. Green published this rather challenging novel at the age of twenty-four and is considered as something of a half fulfilled modernist prodigy, having taken fifteen years to publish another. David Lodge has called Living “a wonderful celebration, tender without being sentimental, of English working-class life at a particular moment in time.”
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