A Sort of Life - Graham Greene. Published by Slightly Foxed Editions (no. 11), Limited edition hardback, no. 164 of 2000. Publication date 2010. Originally published by The Bodley Head in 1971. A Sort of Life was Graham Greene's first volume of autobiography. This volume covers his early life, from mundane childhood in Hertfordshire, through to school and university and on to his early working life as a sub-editor at The Times and his years as a struggling novelist. His memoirs have been criticized for being oddly impersonal and for brushing over his marriage and his conversion to Catholicism, especially as his faith was to become a powerful motif in many of his novels. Despite these omissions he deals frankly with the personal demons he faced in his teens, including an account of several suicide attempts, the resulting psychoanalysis his father arranged for him, and his brief fascination with Russian roulette. Slightly Foxed Editions are a series of high-quality pocket hardback re