Description
Set in a Birmingham foundry, this quietly powerful novel follows workers, managers, and families whose lives are shaped by the rhythms, pressures, and uncertainties of industrial labor. Through intersecting perspectives, it explores class, work, ambition, domestic life, and the fragile dignity people seek within an increasingly mechanized world. Written in Henry Green’s distinctive, impressionistic style, the book transforms the routines of everyday existence into a vivid and deeply humane portrait of a community in transition.
Available Editions
hardcover
Reprint Services Corp
Published Jan 1, 1988
280 pages
ISBN: 9780781200370
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Details
First Published
1929
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Living by Henry Green.
Death/Grief
War/Trauma
Classism/Discrimination