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While in his novels Greene may have soberly tackled the decidedly melancholic and despondent psyche of the victim, in reality he was no wet blanket. On the contrary, as Wood points out, the witty Greene had a sense of humor about him and was known to enter (and even win...
A birthday party is never quite the same when the birthday boy can’t make it to the festivities. But last Thursday, the Harvard Book Store admirably managed to overcome the honoree’s absence at the Graham Greene Centennial Celebration, held to canonize the month during...
"No 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...
That vagrancy was complicated by a sense of conscience and compassion that made him painfully aware of the hurt he was causing. Sherry responds to that anguish by trying to find the sources in life for what was memorable in fiction, starting with a dusty old man in Mexico, his...
Sherry's greatest find is, no doubt, the letters--tender, imploring and naked--that Greene wrote over decades to Walston. The man often celebrated as the patron saint of doubters is here revealed as one of the romantics of the century ("You are the only real life there was: everything...