Ways Of Escape
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In Ways of Escape, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds turns the lens inward, offering an intimate and candid second volume of autobiography that chronicles the restless journey of Graham Greene's life as both a man and a writer. From the opium dens of Vietnam to the political turbulence of Kenya and the shadowy backstreets of Havana, Greene recounts the extraordinary travels and encounters that shaped his most iconic works — including The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, and A Burnt-Out Case — illuminating the profound connection between lived experience and creative imagination. Greene writes with the same spare elegance and moral complexity that defines his celebrated fiction, presenting autobiography not as a self-congratulatory exercise but as a reckoning with doubt, faith, and the human need for meaning. His prose is deceptively simple yet charged with psychological depth, tracing how boredom, danger, and spiritual restlessness drove him to the edges of the world in search of material — and perhaps, of himself. For readers who have long admired his novels, this memoir peels back the curtain on a literary genius whose greatest creation may well have been the life he chose to live.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In Ways of Escape, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds turns the lens inward, offering an intimate and candid second volume of autobiography that chronicles the restless journey of Graham Greene's life as both a man and a writer. From the opium dens of Vietnam to the political turbulence of Kenya and the shadowy backstreets of Havana, Greene recounts the extraordinary travels and encounters that shaped his most iconic works — including The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, and A Burnt-Out Case — illuminating the profound connection between lived experience and creative imagination. Greene writes with the same spare elegance and moral complexity that defines his celebrated fiction, presenting autobiography not as a self-congratulatory exercise but as a reckoning with doubt, faith, and the human need for meaning. His prose is deceptively simple yet charged with psychological depth, tracing how boredom, danger, and spiritual restlessness drove him to the edges of the world in search of material — and perhaps, of himself. For readers who have long admired his novels, this memoir peels back the curtain on a literary genius whose greatest creation may well have been the life he chose to live.