'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 I hope that there is room for the remembrance 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 ON CAPRI, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work & talk & the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.
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 ON CAPRI, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work & talk & the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.
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Hardback Editions
February 2000 : Hardback
| Title: Greene on Capri: A Memoir Author(s): Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0-374-16675-7 / 978-0-374-16675-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2000 : Hardback
| Title: Greene on Capri Author(s): Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 1-86049-799-3 / 9781860497995 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Greene on Capri: A Memoir Author(s): Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0-374-52777-6 / 978-0-374-52777-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Greene on Capri Author(s): Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 1-86049-873-6 / 9781860498732 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
March 2002 : Unbound
| Title: Greene on Capri Author(s): Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0-374-70258-6 / 978-0-374-70258-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Fsg Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 2002 : Unbound
| Title: Greene on Capri Author(s): Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0-374-70261-6 / 978-0-374-70261-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Fsg Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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