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Graham Greene

A Literary Life

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  • © 2003

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  1. Neil Sinyard
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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Greene Chronology: Some Major Dates and Events

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 1-8

  3. Introduction: Secret Sharer

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 9-14

  4. Why Do I Write?

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 15-22

  5. The Books in My Life

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 23-33

  6. The Greene Routine

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 34-41

  7. Greene on the Screen

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 42-57

  8. Laughter in the Shadow of the Gallows

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 58-76

  9. A Sort of Autobiography: Epigraphs and Dedications

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 77-85

  10. The Green Baize Door

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 86-95

  11. Poets of Criminality and Conscience: Greene and Hitchcock

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 96-108

  12. Conclusion: Forgotten Memories

    • Neil Sinyard
    Pages 109-119

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 120-169
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About this book

A new title in Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Lives series, this is a biographical narrative of Graham Greene's literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work; his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience. Greene was elusive and enigmatic, and this book teases out the fiction from his autobiographies, the autobiography from his fictions, sharing Paul Theroux's view that you may not know Greene from his face or speech 'but from his writing, you know everything.'

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'...for anyone...curious about Greene or how early childhood deprivations produce artists, or how Catholic guilt can screw even the the sharpest of intellects, reading this book is seriously fine entertainment.' - Catherine Ford, The Age Review

'...fresh and useful...this book will provide many readers with a new way of getting to know Greene' - Martin Corner, Kingston University, Newsletter of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust

About the author

NEIL SINYARD is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Hull. He is the author of twenty books on film, including Film and Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation, which includes a comparison of Greene and Hitchcock; Children in the Movies, which discusses the representation of childhood in film and literature; and studies of directors such as Wilder, Hitchcock, Allan, Spielberg, Zinnemann and Roeg. He has published over a hundred articles for such publications as The Dickensian, The Critical Quarterly, Sight and Sound, The Sunday Telegraph, Positif and Cinema Papers, and he has written extensively on the relationship between literature and film.

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