October 22, 2004

Books

Graham Greene at 100

The Life of Graham GreeneVolume III: 1956-1991Norman SherryViking, $39.95, 800 pp.In Search of a BeginningMy Life with Graham GreeneYvonne Cloetta, as told to Marie-Françoise Allain, translated by Euan CameronBloomsbury, £16.99, 416 pp.

Bernard Bergonzi

Graham Greene, who was born a hundred years ago, had an exceptionally long literary career. He published a slim volume of undergraduate verse in 1926, followed three years later by his first novel, The Man Within. It had many successors, and Greene’s last book, a barrel-scraping collection of short stories provocatively called The Last Word, came out in 1990, the year before (...)


 

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