Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, aI honestly canat see why everybody who isnat a child, everybody whoas theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesnat spend all his time thinking about it. Itas a pretty arresting thought.a He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Mauriceas father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral. Mauriceas 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 friendas 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.There has been an inn on this site since the Middle Ages, from which parts of the present building date; after some 190 years of service as a dwelling its original function and something of its original appearance, were restored in 1961. ... Sears 40. Car park. No dogs. 888 from 42/6. Class A App. Bernard Levin; Lord Norwich;_]ohn Dankworth; Harry Harrison; Wynford Vaughan-Thomas; Dennis Brogan; Brian W Aldiss; and many others. The point about white Burgundies is that I hateanbsp;...
Title | : | The Green Man |
Author | : | Kingsley Amis |
Publisher | : | New York Review of Books - 2013-05-07 |
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