A Sort Of Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few writers have possessed the courage to turn the same unflinching gaze upon themselves that Graham Greene directed at his fictional characters, but A Sort of Life stands as a rare and remarkable exception. This autobiographical memoir chronicles the first twenty-seven years of Greene's life, tracing his journey from a miserable childhood at Berkhamsted School — where his father was headmaster — through his bouts of depression, his experiments with Russian roulette, his conversion to Catholicism, and his earliest, formative attempts at fiction writing. Greene writes with the same spare, atmospheric precision that distinguishes his celebrated novels, presenting his inner world with candid detachment rather than self-indulgent confession. The memoir illuminates the psychological roots of his literary obsessions: guilt, faith, betrayal, and the seductive pull of danger — themes that would come to define works such as The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American. For admirers of Greene's fiction, this account of his early years is not merely supplementary reading; it is an essential key to understanding one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and enduring literary voices.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few writers have possessed the courage to turn the same unflinching gaze upon themselves that Graham Greene directed at his fictional characters, but A Sort of Life stands as a rare and remarkable exception. This autobiographical memoir chronicles the first twenty-seven years of Greene's life, tracing his journey from a miserable childhood at Berkhamsted School — where his father was headmaster — through his bouts of depression, his experiments with Russian roulette, his conversion to Catholicism, and his earliest, formative attempts at fiction writing. Greene writes with the same spare, atmospheric precision that distinguishes his celebrated novels, presenting his inner world with candid detachment rather than self-indulgent confession. The memoir illuminates the psychological roots of his literary obsessions: guilt, faith, betrayal, and the seductive pull of danger — themes that would come to define works such as The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American. For admirers of Greene's fiction, this account of his early years is not merely supplementary reading; it is an essential key to understanding one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and enduring literary voices.