{"product_id":"greene-on-capri","title":"Greene On Capri","description":"\u003cp\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.''\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312258883966,"sku":"NW9781860498732","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781860498732.jpg?v=1778551324","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/greene-on-capri","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}