Graham Greene: A Life in Letters

by Graham Greene

Book Overview

One of the undisputed masters of twentieth-century English prose, Graham Greene (1904-1991) wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This exemplary volume presents a new and engrossing account of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066428
• ISBN13: 9780393066425
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Greene

A nicely edited selection of the letters of the English novelist and public figure. Those with a special interest in Graham Greene and his career will enjoy these often-short letters written to a multitude of friends, lovers, and fellow artists, such as the Waughs (Evelyn and Auberon), Catherine Walston and Michael Korda. The letters themselves are well written but are often more straightforward communications than pieces of polished literary prose. Fans and students of Mr. Greene's work will benefit from the scattered background material and insights to his many published efforts, such as "The Comedians" and "The Power and the Glory." Graham Greene, while a solid believer in free speech, was certainly on the left fringe of Cold War politics and an anti-American having expressed, as an example, support for Manuel Noriega of Panama with such a thought as "...if I have to choose between a drug dealer and American imperialism I prefer the drug dealer."