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Graham Greene: Books
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Nearly 10 years after his death, Graham Greene is coming out with a new book: No Man's Land. Published by Hesperus Press, it's supposed to come out in October. Here's the publisher's website and blurb:
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Today, Greene's view of Americans as dangerously innocent seems antiquated, almost quaint. His American funnels explosives to the wrong people because of his naive faith in bringing liberty to the paddy fields, because of the books he carries around under his arm. As Greene put it, "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." But there is no longer the sense in Europe that America is bungling its effort to spread democracy out of naiveté; on the contrary, motives are questioned. Aggression is assumed. A book claiming that the United States government was responsible for the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 was a runaway best seller in France.
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A search for 'Graham Greene' will provide a diverse array of returns, some relating to the Canadian actor, many simply selling Greene's books. The following list is derived from some two or three hours searching on different engines. It is not definitive. Not all content has been examined in detail. It is simply a list of sites that seemed, on first glance, to be worth an enthusiast's, or student's, further time. It will be periodically checked for relevance and, perhaps half-yearly, completely re-run.
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Leopoldo Duran, a close friend of Greene's for many years, writes about the conversations the two had on trips through northern Spain. But Duran's book is disorganized and repetitive. It is more about how well Duran knew Greene than about anything else. The best pages discuss the origins of Greene's hilarious novel, Monsignor Quixote (1982), a subject that itself might have made for a wonderful book. But obsession drives Duran over the edge. He plays a game of hide-and-seek with the reader, claiming he was a priest Greene could trust, and that the two had many conversations, some up to fourteen hours, where secrets were exchanged.
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One of Greene's last books, Getting to Know the General, told of his relationship with Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos. He praised Torrijos as a true nationalist who sought to extricate Panama from 80 years of U.S. hegemony. Greene ... had a few words to say, in that book, about his support for the Nicaraguan Revolution. Before 1979, he had contributed money to enable the Sandinista Front to buy bullets. Greene was no pacifist: he expressed his sincere hope that the bullets he paid for had found their way into a few of Somoza's troops.
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Greene moved on to a job as a subeditor at The Times in London. He married Vivien in October 1927 and with her had a daughter, Lucy Caroline, and a son Francis. During this time, he wrote a political novel, The Episode, which was rejected by publishers. He finally succeeded in getting published with The Man Within. The success of the book led Greene to make a difficult decision: leave his much-loved job at The Times and become a self-employed writer.
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