Greene on Capri: a memoir - Hardcover

Shirley Hazzard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860497993 ISBN 13: 9781860497995

Publisher: Virago Press, London, 2000

Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition Thus. 149 pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered green cloth with clean crips corners and edges, together with original unclipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper. Many relevant contemporary newspaper clippings fastened front and rear at blurbs using paperclips, with resultant very slight indentations, otherwise very good.

About this title

About the Author:

Shirley Hazzard has worked in Hong Kong, then New Zealand in the High Commissioner's Office. In 1951 she moved to New York where she worked for the UN. She is the recepient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy Award and the O. Henry Short Story Award.

Review:

Charming... succinct and satisfying... her memoir, like the island it so fondly describes, is a real gem to which the reader will wish to return * Sunday Telegraph * An affectionate but not uncritical portrait of a companion who could be charming but also provocative... it is a convincing picture of a man who has been much and excellently written about but seldom with so astute and yet so warm an eye * Times Literary Supplement * Shirley Hazzard is highly observant and alarmingly intelligent; she is also erudite, precise and morally scrupulous. Her short book is not only a joy to read for its lucid, thoughtful prose, but also a refreshing antidote to biographical overkill and presumption. As a picture of Graham Greene, it is like an Ingres portrait drawing: small, but miraculously clear * Spectator * Shirley Hazzard achieves an astonishing amount in less than 150 pages ... Her memoir, like the island it so fondly describes, is a real gem to which the reader will wish to return * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * Her observations are penetrating, her style is superb, and her range of literary reference is the equal of his. Marvellous * TIME OUT * A little masterpiece of reminiscence... reading a personal sketch of this quality makes me think that perhaps the conventional biography is just a grandiose dump-bin for all those elements of life that do not matter * MAIL ON SUNDAY *

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago Press, London
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1860497993
• ISBN 13: 9781860497995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 149