A Sort of Life

Resumen del libro

Graham Green was born into a veritable tribe of Greenes - six children, eventually, and sic cousins - based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A SORT OF LIFE Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, THE MAN WITHIN was published in 1929. A SORT OF LIFE, like its companion volume, WAYS OF ESCAPE, combines reticence with candour and reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, the genesis of a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things..the narrow boundary between lovalty and disloyalty, between fidelity and infidelity, the mind's contradictions, the paradox one carries within oneself'.

Biografía del autor

Graham Greene nació en Inglaterra en 1904. Se licenció en Historia en Oxford y tras un inicio profesional como periodista y crítico (y una discreta colaboración con los servicios secretos británicos), se consolidó como uno de los más importantes escritores del siglo XX gracias a títulos como El americano impasible, Nuestro hombre en la Habana y El tercer hombre. William Golding lo describió como el mayor cronista de la ansiedad de su tiempo. Murió en Suiza, donde vivía, en 1991.