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The Unquiet Englishman - A Life of Graham Greene (Hardcover)
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The Unquiet Englishman - A Life of Graham Greene (Hardcover)
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One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation,
Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he
told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A
journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives
of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World
War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel
Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic
novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American,
are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the
twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the
narratives of Greene's extraordinary life. It portrays a man who
was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental
illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several
occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing
advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the
world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself
described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in
which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of
politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet
Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A
work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham
Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many
thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and
to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively
with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds
new light on one of the foremost modern writers.
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