Ways Of Escape
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In Ways of Escape, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds turns the lens inward, offering a rare and candid second volume of autobiography that chronicles the journeys — both geographic and psychological — that shaped his extraordinary career. Graham Greene conducts readers through the restless decades of his life as a writer, tracing his travels through war-torn Indochina, the volatile heart of Africa, revolutionary Cuba, and beyond, illuminating how these dangerous, politically charged landscapes became the raw material for some of the most enduring novels of the modern era. Greene writes with the same cool precision and moral ambiguity that defines his fiction, presenting his own life as a kind of extended dispatch from the world's most troubled frontiers. Ways of Escape is not merely a memoir but a meditation on the relationship between experience and art, between boredom and risk, between faith lost and meaning desperately sought. For admirers of Greene's novels — The Quiet American, The Heart of the Matter, Our Man in Havana — this account of the man behind the work raises an irresistible question: where does the fiction end and the life begin?
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In Ways of Escape, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds turns the lens inward, offering a rare and candid second volume of autobiography that chronicles the journeys — both geographic and psychological — that shaped his extraordinary career. Graham Greene conducts readers through the restless decades of his life as a writer, tracing his travels through war-torn Indochina, the volatile heart of Africa, revolutionary Cuba, and beyond, illuminating how these dangerous, politically charged landscapes became the raw material for some of the most enduring novels of the modern era. Greene writes with the same cool precision and moral ambiguity that defines his fiction, presenting his own life as a kind of extended dispatch from the world's most troubled frontiers. Ways of Escape is not merely a memoir but a meditation on the relationship between experience and art, between boredom and risk, between faith lost and meaning desperately sought. For admirers of Greene's novels — The Quiet American, The Heart of the Matter, Our Man in Havana — this account of the man behind the work raises an irresistible question: where does the fiction end and the life begin?