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The Green Avenue: The Life and Writings of Forrest Reid, 1875-1947

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Green Avenue: The Life and Writings of Forrest Reid, 1875-1947
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Brian Taylor
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:268
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
ISBN/Barcode 9780521135634
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 22 April 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Forrest Reid's books were never commercial successes, and many have fallen out of print. Yet he has been called 'the first Ulster novelist of European status', and he continues to attract a small and loyal audience. Apart from three years at Cambridge, he lived in Belfast from his birth in 1875 till his death in 1947. He cared little for literary coteries, preferring that a small circle of friends, amongst whom he numbered E. M. Forster and Walter de la Mare, should visit him in his quiet, bachelor home in the suburbs. However, the richness of his imaginative life stands in stark contrast to this apparent provincial obscurity. Reid was obsessed with boyhood. He loved boys, wrote about them and wanted to write about nothing else. Throughout his work the recurrent theme is childhood and the loss of its complicated innocence. This book, first published in 1980, was the first study of Reid for twenty-five years.