Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
| Author: | Graham Greene |
| Category: | Non-Fiction |
| UK Publisher: | Little Brown |
| UK Publication Date: | [20/09/07] |
One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene (1904-91) 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The book includes a vast number of unpublished letters to Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Anthony Powell, Edith Sitwell, R. K. Narayan, Muriel Spark and other leading writers of the time.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.
Author: Graham Greene
Graham Greene was born in 1904. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford he worked for four years as sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth novel, Stamboul Train. In 1935 he made a journey across ...