Volume 48, Number 16 · October 18, 2001
Unlikely Hero
By Andrew O'Hagan
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green
by Jeremy Treglown
Random House, 331 pp., $26.95
OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
Blindness
by Henry Green
Dalkey Archive, 214 pp., $12.50 (paper)
Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait
by Henry Green
Vintage, 159 pp., £6.99 (paper)
Caught
by Henry Green
Harvill/Panther, 198 pp., £6.99 (paper)
Concluding
by Henry Green
Dalkey Archive, 214 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Nothing
by Henry Green
Dalkey Archive, 203 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Doting
by Henry Green
Dalkey Archive, 226 pp., $12.50 (paper)
The daily grind of the average literary wife—pouring drinks, looking nice at parties, managing multiple selves, and talking the loved one down off ledges—has opened up a whole new seam in the publishing industry. If Lady Macbeth were around today she'd surely be ready to launch Is This a Life I See Before Me?: The Girl I Was in the Bonnie Before and angling for a spot on Oprah's Book Club. I say this is new but of course in some respects it's pretty old. Who could forget Jane Welsh Carlyle's dazzlingly tortured letters about being Mrs. Minimus next to Master Sage, or indeed Double Drink Story: My Life With Dylan Thomas, in which Caitlin Thomas looks through the empty glasses darkly, to find her Welsh wizard, only much more and much less than she had expected?
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