A Sort Of Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary autobiography, A Sort of Life chronicles the early years of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated novelists, tracing his childhood in Berkhamsted, his turbulent adolescence, and the formative experiences that would shape his singular artistic vision. Written with the same spare, precise prose that distinguishes his fiction, Greene presents an unflinching and often darkly humorous account of a sensitive, melancholy temperament struggling to find its place in the world — including his famous experiments with Russian roulette as a teenager. The memoir uncovers the roots of his lifelong preoccupations with faith, guilt, betrayal, and the seductive pull of danger, offering readers an intimate map of the interior landscape behind novels such as The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American. Greene's tone is characteristically wry and self-deprecating, yet shot through with a profound seriousness about the craft of writing and the mysterious alchemy by which lived experience is transformed into art. Essential reading for admirers of Greene's fiction and for anyone captivated by the question of how a writer's life becomes his work.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, The Bodley Head
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary autobiography, A Sort of Life chronicles the early years of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated novelists, tracing his childhood in Berkhamsted, his turbulent adolescence, and the formative experiences that would shape his singular artistic vision. Written with the same spare, precise prose that distinguishes his fiction, Greene presents an unflinching and often darkly humorous account of a sensitive, melancholy temperament struggling to find its place in the world — including his famous experiments with Russian roulette as a teenager. The memoir uncovers the roots of his lifelong preoccupations with faith, guilt, betrayal, and the seductive pull of danger, offering readers an intimate map of the interior landscape behind novels such as The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American. Greene's tone is characteristically wry and self-deprecating, yet shot through with a profound seriousness about the craft of writing and the mysterious alchemy by which lived experience is transformed into art. Essential reading for admirers of Greene's fiction and for anyone captivated by the question of how a writer's life becomes his work.