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When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new friend is every bit as complex as the fiction he鈥檚 famous for.

While living in southern France in 1972, Michael Mewshaw engineered a meeting with Graham Greene. Mewshaw was an ambitious young journalist and novelist, Greene was an internationally revered elder statesman of letters. The pair became fast friends and corresponded for the next twenty years.聽My Man in Antibes聽is an intimate portrait of what it was like to eat, drink, and gossip with one of the most revered鈥攁nd complicated鈥攁uthors of the twentieth century.

Growing up Catholic with literary aspirations, Mewshaw believed Greene was the author to emulate. Not only did Greene demonstrate how religious belief and church dogma could be subjects for fiction, he also wrote murder mysteries and political thrillers where his characters鈥� inner conflicts played out dramatically in exotic settings. Under Greene鈥檚 sway, Mewshaw traveled through Mexico like the whiskey priest in Greene鈥檚聽The Power and the Glory聽and honeymooned at the Hotel Oloffson in Haiti, the setting of聽The Comedians.

When Mewshaw tracked down Greene in Antibes, he found the author was far from a reclusive, close-mouthed figure: Greene garrulously recounted tales about the many women in his life鈥攁nd husbands of those women鈥攁s well as his extraordinary interviews with political figures such as Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh. Over the next two decades, Mewshaw and Greene ate meals together, discussed their travels, and talked about writers they knew in common, such as Anthony Burgess, Shirley Hazzard, and Gore Vidal.

While young Mewshaw looked up to the world-weary Greene, their relationship was never simply that of mentor and mentee.聽My Man in Antibes聽bristles with misunderstandings, arguments, and one young writer鈥檚 desire to get to know a legendary older writer who, in many ways, actively sought to remain unknowable.