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      Party Going

      by Henry Green
      Published
      Jan 1951
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      176
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      A modernist "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby

      Party Going      , published in 1939, is Henry Green's darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the "low dishonest decade" of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fog. Traffic has come to a halt. Stranded in the train station and the hotel connected to it are a group of bright young things waiting to catch a train to the Continent, where their enormously rich friend Max is throwing a party. Green's characters worry and wonder and wander in and out of each other's company (and arms and beds), in pursuit of and pursued by their own secrets and desires.

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      Sep 2000 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099285083 ISBN10 0099285088
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      Feb 2003 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9781860460289 ISBN10 1860460283
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      Jan 1951 Viking ISBN13 9780670541133 ISBN10 0670541133
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      Dec 1970 Harvard University Press ISBN13 9780678031612 ISBN10 0678031614
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      Jul 2009 Vintage Digital ISBN10 B0031RSBM8
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