Gray And His Friends

Download or read book The Man within My Head written by Pico Iyer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he first read Graham Greene, Pico Iyer has been obsessed by the figure of the writer and by one of the great themes of Greene's work: what it means to be an outsider. Wherever he has travelled—usually as an outsider himself--Iyer has found reminders of Greene's life, observed scenes that might have been written by Greene, written stories that recall Greene. Yet as Iyer recounts the history of his obsession, another phantom image begins to assert itself, one that Iyer had long banished from his inner life--that of his father. Insightful, tender, superbly written, The Man Within my Head is another masterpiece from one of our great travel writers.