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The Man Within My Head
Pico Iyer
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 030726761X
EAN: 9780307267610
Kindle: B0050DIWD4
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Non-Fiction
We all carry people inside our heads—actors, leaders,
writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who
sometimes seem closer to us than people we know.
In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the
mysterious closeness he has always felt with the English
writer Graham Greene; he examines Greene’s obsessions, his
elusiveness, his penchant for mystery. Iyer follows Greene’s
trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later
classics as The Quiet American and begins to unpack all he
has in common with Greene: an English public school
education, a lifelong restlessness and refusal to make a
home anywhere, a fascination with the complications of
faith. The deeper Iyer plunges into their haunted kinship,
the more he begins to wonder whether the man within his head
is not Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more
shadowy aspect of himself.
Drawing upon experiences across the globe, from Cuba to
Bhutan, and moving, as Greene would, from Sri Lanka in war
to intimate moments of introspection; trying to make sense
of his own past, commuting between the cloisters of a
fifteenth-century boarding school and California in the
1960s, one of our most resourceful explorers of crossing
cultures gives us his most personal and revelatory book.
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