My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene Mewshaw Michael
My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene Mewshaw Michael When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds…
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My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene Mewshaw Michael
When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new friend is every bit as complex as the fiction he's famous for.While living in southern France in 1972, Michael Mewshaw engineered a meeting with Graham Greene. The pair became fast friends and corresponded for the next twenty years. Mewshaw was an ambitious young journalist and novelist, Greene was an internationally revered elder statesman of letters.
Not only did Greene demonstrate how religious belief and church dogma could be subjects for My Man in Antibes is an intimate portrait of what it was like to eat, drink, and gossip with one of the most revered-and complicated--authors of the twentieth century.Growing up Catholic with literary aspirations, Mewshaw believed Greene was the author to emulate.