{"product_id":"1475845","title":"A Sort of Life by Graham Greene","description":"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 \u003cb\u003e good condition\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780140034950 SKU: 1475845 \u003ci\u003eNote: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48527896019221,"sku":"1475845","price":15.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/2695\/4036\/files\/1475845.jpg?v=1725868912","url":"https:\/\/bookhaven.co.nz\/products\/1475845","provider":"Book Haven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}