Graham greene autobiography

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    September 12, 1971
    'A Sort of' Autobiography -- One of Graham Greene's Best Books
    By WALTER CLEMONS
    A SORT OF LIFE
    By Graham Greene.

    he first thing I remember is sitting in a pram at the top of a hill with a dead dog lying at my feet... The dog, as I know now, was a pug owned bygd my elder sister. It had been run over- by a horse carriage?- and killed and the nurse thought it convenient to bring the cadaver home this way."

    Here, on an early page, as "convenient" and "cadaver" click into the corner pocket, we realize with joy that Graham Greene fryst vatten writing better than he has in years. His "sort of" autobiography- odd, calm, saturnine and unexpectedly moving- fryst vatten one of his best books.

    "A Sort of Life" takes him from what might seem an ideally pastoral boyhood as a schoolmaster's son in the green, Greene-dominated town of Berkhamsted ("The Greenes seemed to move as a tribe like the Bantus, taking p

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    A Sort of Life

    March 13, 2021
    I am still to find anything from Graham Greene even remotely, even marginally disappointing. I pray to God that never happens and I am also secretly assured of my belief in that truism. "A Sort Of Life" gets overlooked, in the light of the much more comprehensive and illustrious "Ways Of Escape" which details, with equal candour, wit and deep insight, all of his travels, experiences and inspirations throughout his long and literally tireless life as a writer and chronicler of twentieth century's most devastating moral spiritual and geo-political conundrums. And I have read most reviews here on Goodreads complaining that while this slim, concise memoir is as elegantly written and compulsively readable as anything by Greene, it ends suddenly with him having enjoyed a brief initial success with the publication of his first properly finished novel and then facing the prospect of inevitable failure in the years after that. What they all must have failed to

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    A Sort of Life

    1971 autobiography by Graham Greene

    First edition

    AuthorGraham Greene
    LanguageEnglish
    SubjectAutobiography
    PublisherThe Bodley Head

    Publication date

    		1971
    Publication placeUnited Kingdom
    Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
    Pages216 pp
    ISBN0140185755

    A Sort of Life is the first volume of autobiography by British novelist Graham Greene, first published in 1971.[1]

    Overview of the book

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    This volume covers Greene's early life, from mundane childhood in Hertfordshire, through to school and university and on to his early working life as a sub-editor at The Times and his years as a struggling novelist. His memoirs have been criticized for being oddly impersonal and for brushing over his marriage and his conversion to Catholicism, especially as his faith was to become a powerful motif in many of his novels.[2] Despite these omissions he deals frankly with the personal demons h