Graham Greene
a life in letters
1st American ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Greene, Richard, 1961- - Contributor
Publication
2008 - W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
111,500 words, Guess
Page Count
446 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22542503M
- ISBN-139780393066425
- OCLC Control Number233788042
- OCLC Control Number227016286
- OCLC Control Numbergrahamgreenelife0000gree
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2008040452
- Goodreads4817610
- LibraryThing4401834
Classifications
- DDC823/.912
- LCCPR6013.R44 Z48 2008
Description
Cassis reveals the private side of Greene - an opinionated, charming, articulate, controversial, complex person who was always at odds with conventional wisdom. The fifty-seven excerpts included in this book contain interviews with Greene as well as personal impressions, diary entries, articles, essays, literary pieces, and recollections by friends and contemporaries that span fifty years. Topics range from Greene's conversion to Catholicism to the writer's role in society. Contributors include such well-known writers as Anthony Burgess, John Mortimer, V. S. Pritchett, Kathleen Raine, A. L. Rowse, Israel Shenker, Kenneth Tynan, and Evelyn Waugh. In this collection of essays, A. F. Cassis sheds light on the mystery of Graham Greene. Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, journalist, and playwright, Greene (1904-91) is considered one of the finest literary talents of the twentieth century. He combined his abilities as a wonderful storyteller and a master craftsman to bring respectability to the thriller genre, or what the author himself called "entertainments." In his writings, Greene expressed serious and controversial views on religious, political, and social issues.
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Genres
- Correspondence.
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