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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday October Book review Author retraces Graham Greenes steps By BARBIE HA literary biography is or should be at least as much a work of art as the novel the play or the poem Strachey indeed one of its most brilliant exponents once described it as the most delicate and humane of all the branches of writing One cannot think of very many literary biographies in English that live up to that high standard Stracheys own quirky Queen Victoria perhaps Johnson and in our own day Leon Edels fivevolume life of Henry James which approvingly quotes Stracheys condemnation of the journeymen of letters who write most biographies with their lamentable lack of selection of detachment of design At first glance Norman Sherry s The Life of Graham Greene Volume One 19041939 Lester and 753 pages fails by all three of these criteria it gives almost every detail of Greenes first years it is the work of a biographer who seems to have phvsjcalh gone over foot of ground ever traversed b its much travelled subject and its very comprehensiveness seems to give it no apparent form that of its subject s life ston It may be of interest to learn that an author as morbid as Greene never particular in love life as he described himself remembers as one of his first ex periences having his sister s dead pug thrown into his baby carriage It may even be relevant to an understanding of the author of The Heart of the Matter to learn that at age six he was witness to a suicide and that as an undergraduate he plaed Russian roulette But must we have Vivien s diary or need to know the number of turkeys owned a sad gentle breeder whom Greene met on the train to San Antonio Sherry s first volume brings us to the writing of Greenes acknowledged masterpiece The Power and the Glory with at least years and the bulk of his literary career in front of him Seven hundred pages for the first years makes it unlikely that only another will suffice to wrap up the next years Graham Greene appears in these pages as not the most congenial Of people or writers His basically withdrawn personality which Sherry emphasizes his relentless moralizing rather at odds with his highly sexed faintly prurient nature his unforgiving anti- Americanism evident especially in The Quiet American his eye for the sordid and down atheel none of these qualities suggests the large mindedness of the great writer Regularly rumored for the Nobel Prize Greene has never received that accolade and one is sometimes reminded of Somerset Maugham in the previous genera a writer whose longevity somehow became confused with high distinction PROBE WARTS However it must be admitted that to see someone as closely and in such detail as Sherrys method allows us not only to notice the warts but to lance and to probe them as well And while to see Greene as a misfit vouth growing into a not entirely agreeable young man is to see him sympathetically we get to know him so well that eventually to know all is to pardon all or almost all Graham Greene sprang from the upper middle classes He was stay ing for instance with his uncle and namesake at the outbreak of the First World War Admiral Graham Greene was responsible for keeping the Bntish fleet at bat tie stations in anticipating the com ing hostilities though Churchill took credit for this in his memoirs Greenes father like Greene s mother was a withdrawn personalis sexuall repressed who as the headmaster of Graham s school expelled for such crimes as masturbation His predecessor who seems to left his mark on Graham was an anal flogger and the novelist in his own memoirs treats this authority figure of his with cruel ridicule especially after a stroke left him powerless to DONUT SPECIAL to p Buy One Dozen I for Only ranila Donuti Batii Dally on Name of Group Contact Person Brief Description of Float Please return tfils form no liter November 1989 Mail to Lions Santa Claus Parade Box 73 Georgetown Mark Rush or Tom Cotton 8778789 8776206 No Political or Protest Groups please Parade roots farming at Sinclair Georgetown Marketplace and ending retaliate After school which Graham ran away from and thereby precipitated himself into a period of psychoanalysis approv by his father Greene went up to Oxford It was full in the early 1920s of a quaintly innocent and rather intellectual homosexuality He seems to have had little to do there with other young men of let ters out to make their names Evelyn especially and Anthony Powell With all this confused sexuality three mam elements were left to make Greene the kind of novelist he became He set out to be a pro fessional espionage agent but this failing he turned to journalism and in that profession he met the love of his life who was a devout Catholic and insisted he become one before they could marry This is the stuff of his art international intrigue and the entertainment of the thrilling the documentary treatment of the darker side of life and a tortured Catholicism The Greenes were married in Most of the rest of this volume is taken up with Greenes success as a journalist especially as a reuewer and his somewhat fitful career as a novelist which is final crowned with success in with Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glor Hane teaches English and cinema studies at the of Toronto He Is a former ice president of the Popular Culture Association it effects Gallery Framing Centre Limited Edition Prints PAUL ROBSON CpMINGSOON 7491 Guelph Street NEXT TO BELL GLASS IN THE CENTRE Georgetown BRAND REALTY INC W 8730300 By Glenda Hughes Sales Rep This market is certainly a test for buyers and sellers alike Without doubt the stats are changing and houses are selling within a reasonable time framework but it is a very frustrating market to work in Our buyers are out there looking and they are eventually buying so that is good news but they are taking forever to make up their minds It seems that if even the slightest thing about a home is not suitable it puts them off and its on to the 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