Green Paradise: Autobiography (Autobiography, Vol 1) - Hardcover

Green, Julien

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714529559 ISBN 13: 9780714529554

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

The author, born to American parents living in Paris, recounts his life and the influences on his writing

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

From Library Journal:

At 91 a senior member of the French Academy par excellence, Green continues to write, having recently published the nostalgic Paris ( LJ 9/1/91) and Distant Lands ( LJ 10/1/91), which examined his genealogical link to the American South. This translation of the first volume of his four-volume autobiography, which covers his early life to age 15, represents an attempt to "find the gossamer thread that passes through my life from birth to death, the one that binds, explains." Meticulously detailed (one wonders at his prodigious memory), this quest results in a revelation of early influences. Paramount are the mothering by his Southern belle mother and sisters; his attraction to other boys, which was a precursor to his later homosexuality; and early religious faith, which underscores a later conversion to Catholicism. This personal confession permits a microscopic self-analysis and elevates the author to the position of being his own most unrelenting critic. Of interest to academic and public libraries that include his works.
- Mary Ellen Beck, Troy P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0714529559
• ISBN 13: 9780714529554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243