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is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry
Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and
haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of
Green's most haunting, elegiac novels and one of the most enduring to
have focused on the individual human tragedy of the war. Henry Green
is the pen-name for Henry Vincent Yorke, the son of a prosperous
Midlands industrialist. He was born near Tewkesbury in 1905 and was
educated at Eton and Oxford, where he wrote his first novel, Blindness,
published in 1926. He entered the family business on the factory-floor,
and went on to run the firm while writing eight other novels (all to be
reissued as Harvill paperbacks). For Angus Wilson he was "one of
the few really considerable English novelists of our time", while
W. H. Auden considered him to be "the finest living English
novelist". Henry Green died in 1973.
