The Green Child
Herbert Read$13.56
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The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read -- the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directions in 1948, it remains a singular work of bewildering imagination and radiance. The author considered it a philosophical myth akin to Plato's cave.
Olivero, the former dictator of a South American country, has returned to his native England after faking his own assassination. On a walk he sees, through a cottage window, a green-skinned young girl tied to a chair. He watches in horror as the kidnapper forces the girl to drink lamb's blood from a cup. Olivero rescues the child, and she leads him into unknown realms.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/16/2013
ISBN: 9780811221825
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d