The Life of Graham Greene;Vol.I 1904-1939

by Sherry Norman (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $4.30

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.33

  This work presents a narrative of Graham Greene's early life - including a breakdown in his early teens, his years at Oxford, and his courtship of his future wife - uncovering the origins of his literary preoccupations and his reasons for conversion to Roman Catholicism. Greene's development as a novelist, from the early success of The Man Within to The Power and the Glory , is also explored in full. Winner of the 1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best critical/biographical study.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.33

  The second volume of Norman Sherry's three-volume biography reveals Graham Greene, at the height of his powers, as one of the great novelists and most enigmatic figures of this century. Saying he would not entrust his papers and own recorded confidences to a friend, Greene chose Sherry for his biographer, having admired his literary detective work on Joseph Conrad's fiction. The book encompasses the most creative phase of Greene's life, when he wrote not only some of his best novels - among them The Ministry of Fear , The Heart of the Matter , The End of the Affair and The Quiet American - but collaborated with Carol Reed on the films of The Fallen Idol and The Third Man . Yet this was also the most tumultuous period, seeing Greene's passionate affair with a beautiful and complex American who was then married to a British peer, and the disintegration of his marriage to Vivien. Here, for the first time, is the full story of Greene's activities as a secret agent and the revealing correspondence that shuttled between his one-time boss Kim Philby in Moscow and Sherry in England. In the 1950s, Greene was increasingly drawn to areas of conflict in the world - to Kenya, Malaya, and to the last days of French Indo-China.