[A Sort of Life]
Year:
1971
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Penguin Books Australia
City:
Melbourne
Year of publication:
1971
Pages:
156
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Graham Green was born into a veritable tribe of Greenes - six children, eventually, and cousins - based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster.
In “A sort of life” Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, “The man within” was published in 1929. This book, like its companion volume, “Ways of escape”, combines reticence with candour and reveals, brilliantly and compellingly.
Author: C F, Australia
Update on: Aug 2023