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The Green Man (New York Review Books Classics) by Kingsley Amis is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Green Man (New York Review Books Classics) about?

The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, romantic woes, and alcoholism in this humorous, “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author ( The New York Times ) 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.

Who reads The Green Man (New York Review Books Classics)?

Author

Kingsley Amis

Publisher

NYRB Classics;New York Review Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299571488

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Mystery, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.54 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14