The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I: 1904-1939
by Norman Sherry
published
April 2004
(first published 1990)
by Penguin (Non-Classics)
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binding
Paperback, 816 pages
literary awards
Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work (1990)
isbn
0142004200
(isbn13: 9780142004203)
description
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...more
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An enormous and exhausting literary study of the life and work of a major modern writer of the 20th century. Sherry's 3-volume biography chronicles Greene's life and works and adventures and affairs providing a fascinating account of an extraordinary life. Sherry theorizes that the private Greene can be best understood through his fiction and I tend to agree with this. The main male characters in Green's major novels, like The Heart of the Matter, the End of the Affair and the Quiet American,...more
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Read in May, 2008
Okay, I can't believe that I signed on to read this trilogy. It is taking me forever to wade through the minutia of Graham's first 35 years. It isn't that the book is boring, just filled with so much detail that I find myself flipping to the photographs, the book's notes, and Greene's books themselves with each new reference made by Sherry. ARGH! I may still be reading this first volume when my kids go to college at this rate. Maybe, I should have just read Greene's AUTOBIOGRAPHY and taken his w...more
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This book is a must-read for anyone who is into Graham Greene. Very well written. Contains copious correspondence from Graham to his future wife, Vivienne, w/r/t his initial years working as a journalist, his pursuit of her, and his conversion to Catholocism (I'm an atheist, and I found it interesting).
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"'I found a cable waiting for me in Mexico City asking me to apologize to that bitch Shirley Temple'"
The Life of Graham Green p. 621
The Life of Graham Green p. 621
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This book is dense and full of all the details and intricate psychology from his early years.
Awesome.
I'm reading it slowly, but I'm loving it.
Awesome.
I'm reading it slowly, but I'm loving it.
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