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The Green Man
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Joe Dixon
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 25 April 2023
- Run Time
- 7 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral.
Maurice’s problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend’s wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death.
The Green Man is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best.
Critics Review
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“The Green Man is an extremely funny book, filled with slapstick, parody and satire. Indeed, the success of this short novel depends very much on the balance that Amis maintains between fear and laughter.'’
New York Times
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“Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities—including superb sexual comedy.”
Sunday Times
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“It is no small thing to have written a good ghost story; to have written a ghost story that is also a major novel is nothing short of miraculous.”
Book World
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“What makes The Green Man readable and re-readable is the skill with which Amis, like Henry James before him, turns the narrative screw. It is, quite simply, a rattling good ghost story.”
The Times (UK)
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Details
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Joe Dixon
- Duration
- 7 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 April 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212185356
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies, Horror and supernatural fiction
Synopsis
Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral.Maurice’s problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend’s wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death.The Green Man is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best.
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