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The Green Man

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The Green Man

By: Kingsley Amis
Narrated by: Joe Dixon
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Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral.

Maurice’s problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend’s wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death.

The Green Man is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best.

©1969 Kingsley Amis (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
Ghosts Horror Literature & Fiction Satire
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There's a lot of deep psychological patterns woven throughout the story, mostly dealing with Morris and his self-indulging problems.

Wild Fairy-like story

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I love Kingsley Amis’ characters. The clever tale has a lot to say about our moral realities. I read the book years ago. This time it was an experience to hear it so well done.

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