Greene on Capri
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Shirley Hazzard.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Greene, Graham, 1904- -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Capri Island; Steegmuller, Francis, 1906- -- Friends and associates; Hazzard, Shirley, 1931- -- Friends and associates; Greene, Graham, 1904- -- Friends and associates; Novelists, English -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Capri Island; Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography; British -- Italy -- History -- 20th century; Capri Island (Italy) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Capri Island (Italy) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography.
Description: "For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene got to know Shirley Hazzard and 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 and talk, and the literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing island."--BOOK JACKET.