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Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2008-10-1 Pages: 446 Publisher:. Little Brown One of the undisputed masters of English prose in thetwentieth century. Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote tens of thousandsof personal letters This substantial volume presents a new andengrossing account of his life constructed out of his own words.Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated. this selection ofGreenes letters - including many to his family and close friendsthat were unavailable even to his official biographer - gives anentirely new perspective on a life that combined literaryachievement. political action. espionage. travel. and romanticentanglement. The letters describe his travels in Mexico. Africa. Malaya. Vietnam. Haiti. Cuba and other trouble spots. where heobserved the struggles of victims and victors with a compassionateand truthful eye. The book includes a vast number of u...
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** 'Graham Greene: A Life in Letters will offer the most important contribution to studies of the writer since the completion of Norman Sherry's epic, three-volume biography (BOOKSELLER)
** 'A triumph of judgment and judicious selection that offers a vivid new picture of Greene the man: his pleasures, foibles and, above all, his generosity... Now, perhaps for the first time, he emerges whole from the shadow of his biographers, as distinctiv (Ian Thomson, SUNDAY TIMES)
** 'Impeccably edited by Richard Greene, it succeeds admirably in it's declared purpose: to bring together for the first time in one volume letters "that are engaging to read and that reveal Greene's personal, literary, religious and political concerns over a period of 70 years." (Nicholas Shakespeare, DAILY TELEGRAPH)
** 'A condensed portrait of the successful literary life in the 20th century. (Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY)
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* The first book of Graham Greene's letters - the most intimate record we have of a life lived at the heart of modern history
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0349119147
- ISBN 13 9780349119144
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages489
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