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Article: In Greeneland.(The Life of Graham Greene: vol. 3, 1955-1991)(Book Review)
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The Life of Graham Greene: Volume III, 1955-1991, by Norman Sherry (Viking, 906 pp., $39.95)
ONE day in 1948, in a gray and dreary postwar London, Evelyn Waugh stumbled upon Graham Greene at midday Mass. They were the most distinguished and thriving novelists of their generation in England, yet Greene was "shambling, unshaven," and, Waugh recalled, "quite penniless," a peculiar posture for a man whose books had made him rich. Afterwards, Waugh stood Greene a drink at the Ritz, and cracked the mystery of his friend's unexpected penury: "He had suddenly been moved by love of Africa and emptied his pockets into the box for African missions." Waugh's charity that day ...