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Graham Greene: The Enemy Within.
Commonweal
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July 14, 1995|
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Michael Shelden Random House, $25, 442 pp.
In the last few months, an army of biographers has laid siege to Greeneland, but whether that paradoxical terrain has been conquered or even reliably mapped is open to question. In the books under review here, one portrays Greene as an inveterate sinner, another makes him out to be a cynical sexual predator if not a pervert, while a third celebrates Greene's irreverent piety in a fashion that all but calls for canonization. How is the reader to make sense of such contradictory readings?
Not easily. Norman Sherry, ...
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A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. By BERNARD BERGONZI. Oxford: Oxford University...emphasizes the importance of The End of the Affair for his reading of Greene, then omits it altogether from a concluding list of the novels...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Greene adjusting well to pro career.(Sports)(NWL: The former Clemson star and the Padres' top draft pick this year is hitting on all cylinders.)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...many surprises or setbacks for Khalil Greene, the Eugene shortstop who was San Diego...draft. `It's pretty much what I expected,' Greene said in his soft-spoken drawl. `It's day...it up a notch.' Early results would say Greene is responding to that challenge. As the...
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The Life of Graham Greene, vol. 1, 1904-1939.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...century, says the publisher's blurb, Graham Greene has been until now a most elusive personality...evasive subject, it is continuously amusing. Greene, like Kolly Kibber in Brighton Rock, leaves...any other work to date, it fleshes out Greene's early life (1904- 1939) and throws considerable...
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In Greeneland.(The Life of Graham Greene: vol. 3, 1955-1991)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Review
; The Life of Graham Greene: Volume III, 1955-1991, by Norman Sherry...London, Evelyn Waugh stumbled upon Graham Greene at midday Mass. They were the most distinguished...novelists of their generation in England, yet Greene was shambling, unshaven, and, Waugh recalled...
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Essential Graham Greene: Norman Sherry lays bare the 'agnostic Catholic' writer.(A Turbulent Life)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...characteristics of the essential Greene. I first met Greene at my club, the Savile, in London, Mr. Sherry said...some exceptions. You seem as you wear pants. If Greene attached great importance to having an active sex...made him feel most alive. After their first lunch, Greene was nearly run over ...
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Gangreene.(The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Three: 1955-1991)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; Norman Sherry The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Three: 1955-1991. Viking, 906 pages, $39.95 Graham Greene, as Eliot wrote of Baudelake, had a true...transcend it, so he attracted pain to himself. Greene frequented opium dens in Indochina and whorehouses...
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Greene at 100.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; The Life of Graham Greene Volume III: 1956-1991 Norman Sherry Viking...Search of a Beginning My Life with Graham Greene Yvonne Cloetta, as told to Marie-Francoise...pounds sterling]16.99, 416 pp. Graham Greene, who was born a hundred years ago, had...
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An answer to performance anxiety: Don Greene.(2009 Conference Artist)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher
; ...holds a surprise. Keynote speaker, Don Greene, Ph.D., dramatically diverges from that...young man on his high school diving team. Greene was intrigued and confounded by how performance...diving meets. That turn materialized when Greene went to the United States Military Academy...
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 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Cecile A. (Paquette) Greene, 83.(DEATHS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; MANCHAUG Cecile A. (Paquette) Greene, 83, of Warren, formerly of the Manchaug section...10th after an illness. Her husband, Albert T. Greene, died March 18, 2003. She is survived by 3 sons: John P. Greene of Warren, Robert W. Greene of Caribou ME...
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Instruments of grace: for novelist Graham Greene and his characters, corruption could be a path to salvation.(BOOKS)
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine
; Graham Greene always liked the idea of damnation. His contemporary George Orwell joked that, in Greene's view, hell was little more than a high-cla...the late English writer's long career (Greene's centennial was celebrated last year...
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