Concluding is probably the most lyrical novel by a writer whom Rebecca West has called 'the most original' of his time. 'Within the compass of a summer's day for all time yet intensely and closely centered upon a particular time and place, we are made aware of man's predicament in a world of transcendent sadness and beauty.'—Horizon

'[A] novel of projections, protractions, long shots, and shadows flying ahead, a slow fall. . . . The sinister world of Concluding is . . . beautiful, side-lit and colored like an undersea kingdom.'—from the Foreword by Eudora Welty