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One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war - only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover, Rose. A shell-schocked romantic, Charley begins to have trouble telling Rose's half-sister Nancy apart from the late Rose. Charley's delusions elevate his timid courtship of a practical and unremarkable young woman into an amnesiac love story, both comic and disturbing. A contemporary of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green was one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century. Back is his most personal and haunting work.