Product Description

When the war breaks out, Rose, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteers for the Auxiliary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that a quite different link already exists between them: it was Pye's strange, disturbed sister who once upon a time abducted Christopher and kept him in her room until Pye rescued the terrified child. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz the relationship between the two men develops as each of them grapples with his own troubled emotional attachments, the one to his dead wife, the other to his unhappy sister. Inevitably matters come to a head when history shows signs of repeating itself. The subtle handling of relationships, the brilliance of the dialogue and description - including one of the best accounts ever written of London under the Blitz - established Caught as one of Henry Green's most powerful novels.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119495 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-05
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 7.72" h x .55" w x 5.12" l, .36 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 206 pages

From the Back Cover

In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, gossip spreads like wildfire and the lives of two men are torn apart.

When war breaks out, Roe, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteeers for the Auxiliary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that quite a different link already exists between them: it was Pye's strange, disturbed sister who once upon a time abducted Christopher and kept him in her room until Pye rescued the terrified child. As each of them grapples with his own troubled emotional attachments, the one to his son and dead wife, the other to his unhappy sister, their relationship intensifies. The inevitable crisis sparks when, just as in the World War raging around them, history shows signs of repeating itself.

"A strange, sombre story with moments of almost melodramatic intensity, invoking the very special ambience of wartime London" Brian Fallon, Irish Times

About the Author
Henry Green is the pen-name for Henry Vincent Yorke, the son of a prosperous Midlands industrialist. He was born near Tewkesbury in 1905 and was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he wrote his first novel, Blindness, published in 1926. He entered the family business on the factory-floor, and went on to run the firm while writing eight other novels (all to be reissued as Harvill paperbacks). For Angus Wilson he was "one of the few really considerable English novelists of our time", while W.H. Auden considered him to be "the finest living English novelist". Henry Green died in 1973.