- 巻冊次
-
v. 1 : 1904-1939 ISBN 9780224026543
内容説明
One of the great novelist of his time, Graham Greene guarded his privacy, until he allowed Norman Sherry complete access to letters and diaries, and gave consent to this full and frank biography in three parts - the first taking Greene's life up to the beginning of the Second World War.
- 巻冊次
-
v. 2 : 1939-1955 ISBN 9780224027724
内容説明
The second volume of Norman Sherry's three-volume biography reveals Graham Greene, at the height of his powers, as one of the great novelists and most enigmatic figures of this century. Saying he would not entrust his papers and own recorded confidences to a friend, Greene chose Sherry for his biographer, having admired his literary detective work on Joseph Conrad's fiction. The book encompasses the most creative phase of Greene's life, when he wrote not only some of his best novels - among them "The Ministry of Fear", "The Heart of the Matter", "The End of the Affair" and "The Quiet American" - but collaborated with Carol Reed on the films of "The Fallen Idol" and "The Third Man". Yet this was also the most tumultuous period, seeing Greene's passionate affair with a beautiful and complex American who was then married to a British peer, and the disintegration of his marriage to Vivien. Here, for the first time, is the full story of Greene's activities as a secret agent and the revealing correspondence that shuttled between his one-time boss Kim Philby in Moscow and Sherry in England.
In the 1950s, Greene was increasingly drawn to areas of conflict in the world - to Kenya, Malaya, and to the last days of French Indo-China.
- 巻冊次
-
v. 3 : 1955-1991 ISBN 9780224059749
内容説明
This third and final volume of Norman Sherry's biography takes Graham Greene from the very real peril of Cuba to the rigours of the Belgian Congo, through tumultuous Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama, his confrontation with the French mafia, and then into Spain, up to a quiet death at 86, in Switzerland. Sherry illuminates Greene's mind and methods, models and motivation, from his heady success and surprising failure as a playwright; the wrenching loss of his beloved Catherine Walston and the deep but different love affairs that followed; to his final forays into the evil, fulminating trouble spots of the world which beckoned as sirens all his days.
「Nielsen BookData」 より
