Graham Greene: A Life in Letters

Edited by Richard Greene

ISBN 10: 0316727938 / ISBN 13: 9780316727938

Published by London: Little, Brown, 2007

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Condition Notes: Dust wrapper nicked at the foot of the spine, a decent copy otherwise; Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with silver titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (1.1 kg); pp (xxxiv) 446; Index; Includes: Black & white photographs; List of abbreviations; Appendix; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #192477 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
• Publisher: London: Little, Brown
• Publication Date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0316727938
• ISBN 13: 9780316727938
• Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

A revealing portrait of a fascinating life emerges gradually from nearly 70 years’ worth of the great British author’s letters to family members, lovers, literary peers, readers and others.One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This substantial volume presents a new and engrossing account of his life constructed out of his own words.

Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this selection of Greene's letters - including many to his family and close friends that were unavailable even to his official biographer - gives an entirely new perspective on a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, travel, and romantic entanglement. The letters describe his travels in Mexico, Africa, Malaya, Vietnam, Haiti, Cuba and other trouble spots, where he observed the struggles of victims and victors with a compassionate and truthful eye. The book includes a vast number of unpublished letters to Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Anthony Powell, Edith Sitwell, R. K. Narayan, Muriel Spark and other leading writers of the time. Some letters reveal the agonies of his romantic life, especially his relations with his wife, Vivien Greene, and with his mistress Catherine Walston.

The sheer range of experience contained in Greene's correspondence defies comparison and is a key addition to his matchless oeuvre.