Graham Greene: The Last Interview
  • Published: 15 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9781612198149
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $34.99

Graham Greene: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations

  • Graham Greene
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A master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career.

A master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career.

Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly discovered a love for writing, beginning a career that would last a lifetime. Greene's fascination with global politics took him around the world, to places that would become the settings for many of his most famous novels: Mexico (The Power and the Glory), Sierra Leone (The Heart of the Matter), and Haiti (The Comedians) - among dozens of other far-flung locations. He produced masterpieces throughout his life, many of which now stand as indisputably canonical: Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, and The Quiet American to name but a few.
  • Published: 15 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9781612198149
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $34.99
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Praise for Graham Greene: The Last Interview

"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings . . . A master of storytelling." --V. S. Pritchett, The Times (London)

"In a class by himself . . . The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety." --William Golding

"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy." --The New York Times

"Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations. . . . For experience of a whole century he was the man within." --Norman Sherry, The Independent

"No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene." --Time

"One of the finest writers of any language." --The Washington Post

"A superb storyteller--he had a talent for depicting local colour, a keen sense of the dramatic, an eye for dialogue, and skill in pacing his prose." --The New York Times

"Graham Greene was a profound and experimental stylist." --Time Out

"Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature." --John le Carré

"Greene was a force beyond his books." --Melvyn Bragg

"Greene's fictional products are to conventional mystery stories what an Alfred Hitchcock exercise in cinematic suspense is to the ordinary Grade B Whodunit." --Weekly Book Review

"Mr. Greene's extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration . . . moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion." --The Times (London)

"Graham Greene taught us to understand the social and economic cripples in our midst. He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don't suppose his influence will ever disappear." --Auberon Waugh, The Independent

"A masterly storyteller . . . An enormously popular writer who was also one of the most significant novelists of his time." --Newsweek

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