A Sort of Life

Author Graham Greene
Narrator Roger May
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 1 January 1970
Run Time 6 hours and 58 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Autobiography: writers, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Media, entertainment, information and communication industries, Memoirs, Publishing industry and journalism.

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Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man Within was published in 1929. A Sort of Life reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things'.

©Graham Green 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

A great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation

Alec Guinness

The setting of his life is beautifully observed and conveyed. I have never admired his writing more – the masterly skill and economy; the excitement he manages to pump, not just into the narrative, but into the very sentences, which throb and glow themselves

Observer

A subversive hero, self-consciously seeking out (in Browning’s words) ‘the dangerous edge of things,’ who lived everywhere and nowhere, a man whom few people ever knew… Greene was a restless traveler, a committed writer, a terrible husband, an appalling father and an admitted manic-depressive

New York Times

This is the work of a remarkable man determined to show he is not particularly remarkable…his fame is secure

Daily Telegraph

Greene wrote some of the most commanding English novels of the twentieth century and some of the slickest commercial thrillers

Newsday

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