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Doting

Henry Green

1952226 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1952
first published
  • 1952Viking Press · 248 pages · ENG
  • 1952Hogarth Press · 251 pages · ENG
  • 1970A. M. Kelley · 248 pages · ENG
  • 2001Dalkey Archive Press · 226 pages · ENGISBN 9781564782663

"Written almost completely in dialogue, Henry Green's final novel is a biting comedy of manners that exposes the deceptive difference between those who love and those who "dote." Arthur Middleton is a middle-aged member of the upper-middle class living in post-World War II London with his wife. Stuck in a passionless marriage, Arthur becomes infatuated with Annabel, a much younger woman. Their relationship sets into motion a series of intertwining affairs between five close friends less concerned with love than with their attempts to keep the other lovers apart."--BOOK JACKET.

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