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The Man Within My Head
Ever since he first read Graham Greenes work as school boy Pico Iyer has been obsessed by the figure of the writer and by one of the greatest themes of Greenes work what it means to be an outsider. Wherever he has traveled usually an outsider himself Iyer has fund reminders of Greenes 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. And while his father has long held a distant and elusive place in Iyers imagination, this intimately related inner journey reveals his father to him as a man more mysterious than he had ever envisioned.
