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Article: Essential Graham Greene: Norman Sherry lays bare the 'agnostic Catholic' writer.(A Turbulent Life)(Book Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 19, 2004
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Recognized as much for his controversial life as for the Catholic conscience he wielded in his novels, by the time of his death in 1991, Graham Greene's stature as one of the globe's preeminent men of letters was beyond dispute.
This fall, a full century after Greene's birth, his authorized biographer Norman Sherry is celebrating publication of the third and final volume of his massive book, The Life of Graham Greene.
At just under 1,000 pages, "Volume III" covers the period of 1955 to Greene's death from leukemia 36 years later in Switzerland. A fascinating, painstakingly researched biography that treats Greene at the height of his powers, Mr. Sherry's ...