Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939 (Volume One)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxi 783 pages, indexed, annotated, includes black and white plates. The jacket's edges are chipped and there is a scratch half way down the spine. Apart from the shadow of a gift inscription, the body of the book is clean, unmarked and solid as though unread.Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage. "This work presents a narrative of Graham Greene's early life - including a breakdown in his early teens, his years at Oxford, and his courtship of his future wife - uncovering the origins of his literary preoccupations and his reasons for conversion to Roman Catholicism. Greene's development as a novelist, from the early success of "The Man Within" to "The Power and the Glory", is also explored in full. Winner of the 1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best critical/biographical study." (publisher)