Party Going, Paperback

Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green's darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the ``low dishonest decade`` of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fog. Traffic has come to a halt. Stranded in the train station and the hotel connected to it are a group of bright young things waiting to catch a train to the Continent, where their enormously rich friend Max is throwing a party. Green's characters worry and wonder and wander in and out of each other's company (and arms and beds), in pursuit of and pursued by their own secrets and desires.