{"product_id":"9781860498732-greene-on-capri","title":"Greene On Capri","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man on the legendary island of Capri by the renowned author of THE TRANSIT OF VENUS\u003cbr\u003eWhen friends die, one's own credentials change: 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 \u0026amp; where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story.' For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers \u0026amp; refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus \u0026amp; Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke \u0026amp;  Lenin, plus hosts of artists, eccentrics \u0026amp; outcasts.  Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard \u0026amp; 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 \u0026amp; talk \u0026amp; the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449972142454,"sku":"9781860498732","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28394105.jpg?v=1760446977","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781860498732-greene-on-capri","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}