Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Blindness is the story of John Haye, a young student, and begins with an excerpt fromhis diary, brimming with excitement and affectation and curiosity about life andliterature. Then a freak accident robs John of his sight, plunging him into despair.Forced to live with his highhanded, horsey stepmother in the country, John beginsa weird dalliance with a girl named Joan, leading to a new determination. Blindnessis the curse of youth and inexperience and love and ambition, and blindness, Johndiscovers, can also be the source of vision."
Synopsis
Henry Green's first novel, and the book that began his career as a master of British modernism
Blindness is the story of John Haye, a young student, and begins with an excerpt from his diary, brimming with excitement and affectation and curiosity about life and literature. Then a freak accident robs John of his sight, plunging him into despair. Forced to live with his highhanded, horsey stepmother in the country, John begins a weird dalliance with a girl named Joan, leading to a new determination. Blindness is the curse of youth and inexperience and love and ambition, and blindness, John discovers, can also be the source of vision.
Synopsis
Henry Green's first novel, and the book that began his career as a master of British modernism
Blindness--Henry Green's first novel, begun while he was still at Eton and finished before he left university--is the story of John Haye, a young student with literary airs. It starts with an excerpt from his diary, brimming with excitement and affectation and curiosity about life and literature. Then a freak accident robs John of his sight, plunging him into despair. Forced to live with his high-handed, horsey stepmother in the country, John begins a weird dalliance with a girl named Joan, leading to a new determination. Blindness is the curse of youth and inexperience and love and ambition, but blindness, John will discover, can also be the source of vision.