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OverviewThe first volume of Graham Greene's notoriously misleading, mischievous , but nonetheless fascinating autobiography. Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man Within was published in 1929. A Sort of Life reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Graham GreenePublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Classics Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.138kg ISBN: 9780099282570ISBN 10: 0099282577 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 02 September 1999 Recommended Age: From 0 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation -- Alec Guinness The setting of his life is beautifully observed and conveyed. I have never admired his writing more - the masterly skill and economy; the excitement he manages to pump, not just into the narrative, but into the very sentences, which throb and glow themselves * Observer * A subversive hero, self-consciously seeking out (in Browning's words) 'the dangerous edge of things,' who lived everywhere and nowhere, a man whom few people ever knew... Greene was a restless traveler, a committed writer, a terrible husband, an appalling father and an admitted manic-depressive * New York Times * This is the work of a remarkable man determined to show he is not particularly remarkable...his fame is secure * Daily Telegraph * Greene wrote some of the most commanding English novels of the twentieth century and some of the slickest commercial thrillers * Newsday * Greene wrote some of the most commanding English novels of the twentieth century and some of the slickest commercial thrillers * Newsday * This is the work of a remarkable man determined to show he is not particularly remarkable...his fame is secure * Daily Telegraph * A subversive hero, self-consciously seeking out (in Browning's words) 'the dangerous edge of things,' who lived everywhere and nowhere, a man whom few people ever knew... Greene was a restless traveler, a committed writer, a terrible husband, an appalling father and an admitted manic-depressive * New York Times * The setting of his life is beautifully observed and conveyed. I have never admired his writing more - the masterly skill and economy; the excitement he manages to pump, not just into the narrative, but into the very sentences, which throb and glow themselves * Observer * A great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation -- Alec Guinness Mr. Greene's fractional biography - his sort of life is only a part of a life up through the publication of his early, forgotten novels - is a reproof of Auden's overreaching contention that biographies of writers, whether written by others or themselves, are always superfluous and usually in bad taste. It is not superfluous since it prefigures, isolates, and supplements much of the material which will later be part of his works, and he is certainly most discreet in releasing this material from the mortmain of the past. Greene, one of six children of a larger family divided between the rich Greenes and the intellectual Greenes, was a child of many fears and even stronger terrors. His father was a headmaster and he loathed being a student in that school - like the son of a quisling in a country under occupation. His marginal stability manifested itself at various intervals throughout the years: he was sent to an analyst at about sixteen; later in Oxford, while hoping to seduce a governess, he also flirted with a revolver over and over again. His first odd jobs led to a more permanent one with The Times but he was steadily writing a string of novels, unpublished, until finally The Man Within was accepted but success was tenuous for the next ten years. From the beginning he has made clear that he was overshadowed by the knowledge of failure, by awareness of the flawed intention ; indeed hesitation, as well as candor, is implied in the title he has chosen. Perhaps it will not come on strongly enough for those who are not already among Graham Greene's admirers, but most readers will be gratified that he has searched his memory which is like a long broken night. (Kirkus Reviews) A great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation. <br>--Alec Guinness<br><br> The setting of his life is beautifully observed and conveyed. I have never admired his writing more -- the masterly skill and economy; the excitement he manages to pump, not just into the narrative, but into the very sentences, which throb and glow themselves. <br> -- Observer<br><br> This is the work of a remarkable man determined to show he is not particularly remarkable... his fame is secure. <br>-- Daily Telegraph A great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation -- Alec Guinness The setting of his life is beautifully observed and conveyed. I have never admired his writing more - the masterly skill and economy; the excitement he manages to pump, not just into the narrative, but into the very sentences, which throb and glow themselves Observer A subversive hero, self-consciously seeking out (in Browning's words) 'the dangerous edge of things,' who lived everywhere and nowhere, a man whom few people ever knew... Greene was a restless traveler, a committed writer, a terrible husband, an appalling father and an admitted manic-depressive New York Times This is the work of a remarkable man determined to show he is not particularly remarkable...his fame is secure Daily Telegraph Greene wrote some of the most commanding English novels of the twentieth century and some of the slickest commercial thrillers Newsday Author InformationGraham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991. 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