Book description
Blindness is Henry Green's first novel. Begun when the author
was still at school, it tells the story of a clever and artistic boy
who, blinded in a senseless accident, turns to writing with powers
extraordinarily heightened by his affliction. With a total lack of
sentimentality Henry Green explores the youth's adaptation to his
changed and darkened life.
Blindness has been much referred to and much discussed by
Green's admirers, but for many years has been impossible to obtain.
Its reissue coincides with the increasing recognition of Green's
stature as a major modern English novelist.
Henry Green was born in 1905 and spent his youth in his family home
in the West Country. After his education as Eton and Oxford he worked
with his father in an engineering company, but pursued a parallel career
as a novelist.
