The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991

Author - Norman Sherry ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Viking Adult was reviewed on 29-Jul-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991 by Viking Adult. This guy Sherry is a terrible writer. It´s a good job Greene had a full and event -filled life.
Sherry (see dustjacket photo-bouffant hairdo,dodgy moustache and awful "leisure wear" ) is an anorak about facts, thinks Shirley Hazzard is a wonderful writer, gets his facts wrong and goes off at tangents utterly irrelevant to the story he tells.
A typical American professor of English I would think.You can see why Evelyn Waugh refused to meet one.
He even manages to link Saddam Hussein with Stalin and Hitler ( so wanky and post 9/.11).
There´s a bit where he says Greene was canny about money and a few pages earlier he´d been describing how some cad had deceived Greene and stolen all his money.
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2) Hardcover Book The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991 by Viking Adult. While Volume 3 of the Graham Greene Biography is interesting it is not as riveting as the first two volumes by Sherry. In the first two volumes (and especially in volume 2 which reads almost like a fantastic novel) the author Norman Sherry points all his guns on Greene in excellent thorough and succinct reportage. It makes for an enthralling read and some of the best biography I have read. Unfortunately in Volume three Sherry inserts himself into the biography even going so far as to include a picture of him on a donkey in a place where Greene once was. Such puffery only distracts from the subject at hand. Sherry in volume three goes to great lengths to let you know he has talked to important people in Greene´s life. Even so far as to include interview excerpts between himself and these people. This creates a very jarring affect and interferes with the story telling. It is downright annoying. Sherry also ends up in these long circular arcs repeating material already covered in other volumes and revealing little new in the process. It remains an intriguing read especially if you have read volumes one and two. It is a real let down to see the final volume does not have the same high standards as the first two either because Sherry is taking himself more seriously than his topic or because he is an egomaniac. Still there is enough interesting about Greene to keep you turning the pages in this overwritten 800 plus page tome that could have received a good editing job.¤

3) Hardcover Book The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991 by Viking Adult. Hey, this book rocks!
Buy it too, I know Dr. Sherry, my aunt works for him in San Antonio, and I have met this brilliant man on a several occasions. I have not read the book, I do not know where to buy but online, and I have no mney to buy it. But Dr. Sherry has put hours and years into his study and collections of Graham Greene, even a fourth volume.
Help this brother out and buy his book.
ME.¤

4) Hardcover Book The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991 by Viking Adult. Having read the first two volumes I eagerly awaited the third. It is a major disappointment for at least three reasons. The first is that Sherry seems to have merged his identity with that of Greene, making frequent references to himself (and name dropping in the process). He even includes a photo of himself on a donkey, making himself look a little ridiculous. Second, he is obsessed with Greene´s sex life. While quite interesting, Greene´s sexploits get a little tedious after a few hundred pages. Finally, Sherry takes up many pages with summaries and long quotes from Greene´s books. I can read Greene´s books for myself, thank you very much.¤

5) Hardcover Book The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991 by Viking Adult. October 2, 2004, marks the centenary of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary figures: Graham Greene. In volume three, Norman Sherry brings this magisterial biography—twenty-seven years in the making—to a close. Following Greene, still an agent for the British government, from prerevolutionary Cuba and the Belgian Congo to adulterous interludes in Capri and Antibes, Sherry shows Greene at the height of his fame, in the company of other literary luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Ian Fleming, and Noël Coward.

Through unparalleled access to letters, to diaries, and to Greene himself, Sherry reveals with insight and eloquence Greene’s obsessions, his complicated religious feelings, and most significantly, his art. This volume, with its wealth of new and shocking details, brings to a close what Margaret Atwood called “the definitive biography.”¤

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