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100 1 $aHull, Christopher,$d1965-
245 10$aOur man down in Havana :$bthe story behind Graham Greene's Cold War spy novel /$cChristopher Hull.
250 $a1st Pegasus Books hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPegasus Books,$c2019
300 $a338 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.), maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [295]-328) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- A writing life -- Part 1. Before the CubanRevolution. 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 -- "Returnto Cuba" -- "Shadow and sunlight in Cuba": finally meetingFidel -- From Havana with love -- Conclusion
520 $aExploring the backstory that led to the writing of Graham Greene's beloved satirical spy novel, Our Man Down in Havana evokes this pivotal time and place in the author's life. When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and discovered that "every vice was permissible and every trade possible" in a Caribbean fleshpot of mafia-run casinos and nude revues. The former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal settingfor a comic espionage story. Three years later, he returned in the midst of Fidel Castro's guerrilla insurgency against a U.S.-backed dictator to begin writinghis iconic novel Our Man in Havana. Twelve weeks after itspublication, the Cuban Revolution triumphed in January 1959, soon transforming a capitalist playground into a communist stronghold. Combining biography, history, and politics, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene's fictional one. This includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about "concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery." With eerie prescience, Greene's satirical tale had foretold the Cold War's most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
600 10$aGreene, Graham,$d1904-1991$xTravel$zCuba
600 10$aGreene, Graham,$d1904-1991.$tOur man in Havana
650 0$aEspionage in literature
650 0$aCold War
650 0$aEspionage$zCuba$xHistory$y20th century
650 0$aSpy stories, American$xHistory and criticism
651 0$aCuba$xForeign relations$y20th century
651 0$aCuba$xIn literature
651 0$aCuba$xPolitics and government$y1933-1959
651 0$aCuba$xPolitics and government$y1959-1990