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Greene on Capri

Paperback. Pub the Date: January. 2001 Pages: 160 in Publisher by: Virago 'When friends die. One's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers. One of whom has served him mightily. Yet the I hope that there is room for the rememance of a friend who knew him - not wisely. perhaps. but fairly well - on an island that was not his kind of place. but where he came season after season. year after year & where he. too. will be subsumed into the capacious story. 'For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers & refugees alike. among them the emperors Augustus & Tiberius. Henry James. Rilke & Lenin. plus hosts of artists. eccentrics & outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard & her husband. the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In GREENE...

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