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The British author shares the âstrange . . . inner layers of his playful, guilty imaginationâ in this glimpse into a brilliant novelistâs subconscious (The New York Times).  Culled from nearly eight hundred pages of the authorâs âdream diariesâ kept between 1965 and 1989, this singular journal reveals âthe feverish inner life of an intensely private man, providing an uncanny mirror-image of [his] novelistic obsessions, insecurities, and moral preoccupationsâ (Publishers Weekly).  In what Greene calls My Own Worldâas opposed to the Common World of shared realityâhe accompanies Henry James on a disagreeable riverboat trip to Bogota, is caught in a guerilla crossfire with Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden, strolls in the Vatican garden with Pope John Paul II whoâs doling out Perugina chocolates like hosts, offers refuge to a suicidal Charlie Chaplin, and stages a disastrous play in blank verse for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. He also shares his headspace with Goebbels, Castro, Cocteau, Queen Elizabeth, D. H. Lawrence, and talking kittens. And the landscape is just as wide: from Nazi Germany to Haiti to West Africa to Bethlehem 1 AD and to Sweden where he seeks treatment for leprosy. Greene is a criminal, spy, lover, assassin, witness, and writer.  Encompassing life, death, war, feuds, and career, and alternately absurdist, frightening, funny, and revealing, these fertile imaginingsâmany of which found their way into Greeneâs fictionâcomprise nothing less than âan alternate autobiography . . . a uniquely candid self-portraitâ of one of the giants of English literature (Kirkus Reviews).  |
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