description: 'When friends die, one's own credentials one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well - on an island that was "not his kind of place," but where he came season after season, year after year &amp; where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story.' For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers &amp; refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus &amp; Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke &amp; Lenin, plus hosts of artists, eccentrics &amp; outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard &amp; her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In GREENE ON CAPRI, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work &amp; talk &amp; the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.
language: English
title: Greene on Capri
titlecomplete: Greene on Capri
characters: Graham Greene
genres: Biography, History, Autobiography, Italy, Nonfiction, Travel, 21st Century, Australia, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 346
places: Capri
publisher: Virago