Norman Sherry (1925–2016)
Teoksen The Life of Graham Greene, Volume I: 1904-1939 tekijä
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Joseph Conrad : a commemoration : papers from the 1974 International Conference on Conrad (1976) 4 kappaletta
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- Syntymäaika
- 1925-07-06
- Kuolinaika
- 2016-10-19
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- UK
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- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK
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- England, UK
Texas, USA - Ammatit
- biographer
educator
novelist
Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature - Suhteet
- Sherry, Sylvia (former wife)
- Organisaatiot
- Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Lancaster University - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
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Why did he convert? Let's quote Greene, instead of actually thinking about it. Why did he go to Liberia? No particular reason is given in the letters, so let's assume there isn't one. Why Mexico? And so on. Greene led a truly interesting life, and Sherry makes approximately nothing of it. His conversion is recounted in the same style, and at the same length, as negotiations for books that he never published.
The only possible reasons for this are i) that Greene was alive when Sherry was writing, and Sherry felt obliged not to speculate about anything; and ii) Sherry did so much work and read so many tedious, over-egged letters and journals that he just had to stick it all somewhere. I might get through the next volume, because I'm genuinely interested in the man, but dearie me, the last volume is even longer than this one!… (lisätietoja)