Books: Penny Stock

PARTY GOING (255 pp.)—Henry Green—Viking ($3).

On the literary stock exchange, the novels of England's Henry Green rate well up among the blue chips. Readers of Loving, Nothing and Concluding collected dividends in wit and wisdom. Party Going, the sixth of Green's eight slim novels to be published in the U.S., proves that Green can put out penny stock, too.

Party Going is shy of plot, even for plot-shy Henry Green. Seven bright young crumbs from the British upper crust set out for a holiday in France; they never get there. A dense fog anchors them to a...

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