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THE MAN WITHIN MY HEAD
By: Pico Iyer
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 030726761X
EAN: 9780307267610
Kindle: B0050DIWD4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
We all carry people inside our headsโactors, 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 Greeneโs obsessions, his elusiveness, his penchant for mystery. Iyer follows Greeneโs 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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