Henry Green

(from dust jacket flap) Henry Green describes his new novel Nothing as "a frivolous comedy of manners" to which we also add that it is a portrait of postwar society in London's Mayfair and the love story of a well-to-do middle-aged widower who has a marriageable daughter, and a widow of the same age who has a marriageable son. It turns conventional attitudes topsy-turvy and shows up the "older generation" for what it really is.

Also, it is done, like Loving, with wily humor and filled with absurd and ironic situations and once again the author's dialogue has: "A fine, true breathlessness and furnishes much of the bone of the story...a cunning blend of idiom and poetic overtone." -- The Saturday Review of Literature.