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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Nov. 20, 1950 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Union | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's in a Name? | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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