John Williams from the New York Times looks at why now is a good time to rediscover the work of English author Henry Green.
The English writer Henry Green, who died in 1973, is one of those authors who comes back into vogue among serious readers every decade or so and then recedes from view again.
Now the indispensable New York Review Books Classics line is hoping to bring Green back for good. They're reissuing eight of his books in the coming year or so.
"Back" tells the story of Charley Summers, a soldier who returns from World War II having lost his leg and been a prisoner of war.
While he was away fighting, Rose, the woman he loved back home, died.
When he meets a woman who resembles her, his traumatized mind refuses to accept that Rose hasn't miraculously returned.
What follows is a spare and eventually incredibly moving story of hope lost and regained, and of scars that never fully heal.