Word: bodley
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...lies, please" was Greene's injunction to his shadow, and Sherry seems to have heeded the challenge. Instead of lies, he gives us antic speculation, reductive lay psychology and endless chatty asides. Greene evaded his pursuers in part by always being on the move--directing a brewery, bombarding Bodley Head publishers with new discoveries, roaming the world ceaselessly and maintaining a private life that quickened and deepened his heartbreaking novels. At one point we find him writing hundreds of letters to his longtime mistress Catherine Walston, visiting another mistress in Stockholm and, while roaming from Martinique to Moscow, crafting...