TO mark the centenary of renowned author Graham Greene's birth, Jonathan Cape have published the third and final volume of Norman Sherry's definitive biography of Greene.
This third volume takes Greene from the peril of Cuba to the rigours of the Belgian Congo, through tumultuous Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama, his confrontation with the French Mafia, and then into Spain, up to a quiet death at 86, in Switzerland.
Sherry illuminates Greene's mind and methods, models and motivation, from his heady success and surprising failure as a playwright; the wrenching loss of his beloved Catherine Walston and the deep but different love affairs that followed; to his final forays into the evil, fulminating trouble spots of the world which beckoned as sirens all his days.
Norman Sherry has been writing his three-volume biography of Greene for the best party of 30 years - much as Greene himself predicted he would. When Greene first authorised the biography he told Sherry that he thought that he (Greene) would not live to see it completed and that Sherry would be an old man by the time he had finished. Sherry laughingly dismissed this idea, but it seems that Greene was proved right after all.
The Life of Graham Greene Volume 3: 1955-1991 by Norman Sherry (Jonathan Cape, £25)
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