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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hull, Christopher, 1965- author.     Subjects     Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Our man in Havana.     Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 -- Travel -- Cuba.     Espionage -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.     Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1933-1959.     Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990.     Cuba -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hull, Christopher, 1965- author.       by title:      Our man down in Hava...         MARC Display

Our man down in Havana : the story behind Graham Greene's Cold War spy novel / Christopher Hull. by Hull, Christopher, 1965- author. New York : Pegasus Books, 2019. Subjects Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Our man in Havana.   Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 -- Travel -- Cuba.   Espionage -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.   Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1933-1959.   Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990.   Cuba -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781643130187 (hardcover) : 1643130188 (hardcover) Description:  338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. Contents:  Introduction -- A writing life -- Part 1. Before the Cuban Revolution. Brother, sister, brother, spy -- Cold War settings -- Havana Vice -- Down in Havana -- Our arms in Havana -- Part 2. After the Cuban Revolution. Shooting "Our man in Havana" -- Reality imitates fiction -- "Return to Cuba" -- "Shadow and sunlight in Cuba": finally meeting Fidel -- From Havana with love -- Conclusion. Requests:  0 Summary:  Exploring the backstory that led to the writing of Graham Greene's beloved satirical spy novel, Our Man Down in Havana evokes this pivotal time and place in the author's life. When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and discovered that "every vice was permissible and every trade possible" in a Caribbean fleshpot of mafia-run casinos and nude revues. The former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal setting for a comic espionage story. Three years later, he returned in the midst of Fidel Castro's guerrilla insurgency against a U.S.-backed dictator to begin writing his iconic novel Our Man in Havana. Twelve weeks after its publication, the Cuban Revolution triumphed in January 1959, soon transforming a capitalist playground into a communist stronghold. Combining biography, history, and politics, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene's fictional one. This includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about "concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery." With eerie prescience, Greene's satirical tale had foretold the Cold War's most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 823.912 Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 823.912 Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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