{"product_id":"pack-my-bag-henry-green-9780811215725","title":"Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait","description":"In 1938 Henry Green, then thirty-three, dreaded the coming war and decided to \"put down what comes to mind before one is killed.\" \u003cem\u003ePack My Bag\u003c\/em\u003e was published in England in 1940. When he wrote it, Green had already published three of his nine novels and his style\"a gathering web of insinuations\"was fully developed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePack My Bag\u003c\/em\u003e is a marvelously quirky, clear-eyed memoir: a mother who shot at mangle wurzels (turnips) bowled across the lawn for her by the servants; the stately home packed with wounded World War I soldiers; the miseries of Eton, oddities of Oxford, and work in the family factory--the making of a brilliantly original novelist. \"We have inherited the greatest orchestra, the English language, to conduct,\" Green once wrote. \"The means are there; things are going on in life all the time around us.\" His use of language and his account of things that went on in his life inform this delightful and idiosyncratic autobiography, which begins: \"I was born a mouthbreather with a silver spoon.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811215725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811215725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.88h x 5.30w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2004 pg. 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2004 pg. 146","brand":"Henry Green","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483713188095,"sku":"9780811215725","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be0cb62b-a296-45d4-924d-ad402d181d3b.jpg?v=1778040173","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pack-my-bag-henry-green-9780811215725","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}