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Back, by Henry Green. A slim but en gaging story of an English war veteran who learns that shell shock, a metal leg and the death of his old flame don't mean the end of life after all (TIME...
Back, by Henry Green. A slim but engaging story of an English war veteran who learns that shell shock, a metal leg and the death of his old flame don't mean the end of life after all (TIME...
...flame of hope for an organically united U.S. Protestant Church flickers sometimes, but never quite goes out. Last week it burned a bit brighter with an announcement by Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis that the Conference on Church Union, created last year at a meeting of representatives from seven church groups, had drawn up a detailed plan for interdenominational union...
Back, by Henry Green. A slim but engaging story of an English war veteran who learns that shell shock, a metal leg and the death of his old flame don't mean the end of life after all (TIME...
Like all of Green's novels, Back has a skinny plot, scarcely more than an anecdote. War Veteran Charley Summers returns to England with an ill-fitted metal leg and a battered mind. He visits the grave of his old flame Rose, who died while he was away. Everything reminds him of her: the blossoms fringing the graveyard, her father's chatter, the name of a waitress in a pub. When Rose's father urges him to visit an attractive London widow, Charley takes the address but shows little interest; he is still dreaming of Rose...