Peter Orner: Reading is Experience (July 2013)

Peter Orner examines the work of the masterful, and vastly under-appreciated, English novelist, Henry Green. By zeroing in on two of Green’s most famous and innovative novels, Loving and Party Going, Orner discusses technical and emotional aspects of Green’s unusual and unique style, and emphasizes that the key to Green’s work is his uncanny ability to see and listen to his characters. As Eudora Welty wrote in 1970, “The intelligence, the blazing gifts of imagery, dialogue, construction, and form, the power to feel both what can and what can never be said, give Henry Green’s work an intensity greater…than any writer of imaginative fiction today.”