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GOD IN THE DETAILS.
Borges, in one of his enigmatic parables, imagined an empire in which the art of cartography had "attained such perfection" that a map was exactly the same size as the area it covered. At well over two thousand pages, Norman Sherry's authorized biography of Graham Greene, a writer whose slender novels are distinguished by a near-phobia of the extraneous, occasionally seems in danger of reaching a similar condition. The third volume of "The Life of Graham Greene" (Viking; $39.95) has at last arrived, fifteen years after the publication of Volume I, and thirty years after Greene designated Sherry his biographer.
Sherry's sluggish pace owes something to the ...
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- Magazine article from: Commonweal Hueria, Alberto July 14, 1995 700+ words
...worst failing. Both Sherry and Shelden demonstrate...certain constants in Graham Greene's life, lest...other doubts about Sherry's multivolume...been rather kind to Sherry's first volume [The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1: 1904...