A Sort of Life Author:Graham Greene A new and deeply moving masterpiece -- Graham Greene's poignant and personal account of his own life. "If I had known it, the whole future must have lain all the time along those Berkhamstead streets." — With this sentence, so recognizably from the pen of the most distinguished living novelist in the English language, Gr... more »aham Greene begins his autobiography, a masterpiece of self-controlled and precise self-examination, fascinating for its observations, memories, recollections, for the shear pleasure of reading a great artist write about himself.
In the story of his childhood, youth and early years as a writer, he reveals the conscious and unconscious elements that formed the style and provided the material for his novels: characters minutely observed who re-emerge in different forms in his books and plays; incidents, phrases, impressions from his own life that are echoed and transfigured in his fiction. « less