A Sort of Life by Graham Greene

Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, any conclusion must be arbitrary, and I have preferred to finish this essay the the years of failure with followed the acceptance of my first novel ... 'In another sense too a book like this can only be a 'sort of life', for in the course of the 66 years I have spent almost as much time with imaginary characters as with real men and women ... There is a fashion today among many of my contemporaries to treat the events of their past with irony. It is a legitimate method of self-defence ... I have tried, however unsuccessfully, to live again the follies and sentimentalities and exaggerations of the distant time, and to feel them, as I felt them then, without irony.'. This 1974 Penguin Books Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9780140034950 SKU: 1475845 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1475845
Location: Biography