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Title: The Man Within My Head

Author: Pico Iyer

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

We all carry people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the English writer Graham Greene; he examines Greenes obsessions, his elusiveness, his penchant for mystery.

Iyer follows Greenes trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American and begins to unpack all he has in common with Greene: an English public school education, a lifelong restlessness and refusal to make a home anywhere, a fascination with the complications of faith. The deeper Iyer plunges into their haunted kinship, the more he begins to wonder whether the man within his head is not Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more shadowy aspect of himself. Drawing upon experiences across the globe, from Cuba to Bhutan, and moving, as Greene would, from Sri Lanka in war to intimate moments of introspection; trying to make sense of his own past, commuting between the cloisters of a fifteenth-century boarding school and California in the 1960s, one of our most resourceful explorers of crossing cultures gives us his most personal and revelatory book.

Members Reviews:

His Own Head

I always enjoy Pico Iyers books because he has a balance of the objective, observing mind and the subjective self questioning of an attentive mind and the appreciation and acceptance of the heart mind. Or so it seems to me. He has closely observed information to share about people and places, and now he has closely examined things to share biographically as well. Along the way he always credits every helping hand or heart. I find strength in critiques that do not tear down.

Especially if you are also a reader of Graham Greene you will enjoy this book. If you have enjoyed Pico Iyer's other travels through the worlds his mind has encountered, you will get something out of this too.

The Man within My Head

What an exciting, thoughtful writer, who has lived such an adventuresome life--and continues to do so. From Santa Barbara, with an Indian academic father, to public school in England, to living in Japan, and traveling and writing-- A man of immense wisdom and thoughtfulness, he is a treasure , with his knowledge of Japan's "stillness", and his own extraordinary perceptiveness and thoughtfulness. A rare travel writer, who is a poet and philosopher of the first rank!This book was a treasure to read , mull over, and remember!!

Excellent writing and I liked learning about the three of ...

Excellent writing and I liked learning about the three of them in his head: his father, Graham Green and him.

I loved the multiple levels of analogy

Pico Iyer does a fantastic job of describing the places and people that are around the fringes of the book.

The description of his British boarding school was very illuminating for me. The playing off of the impact of both his father and Graham Greene on Iyer's life is wonderfully well done.

I love Pico Iyer

I love Pico Iyer, and this book is quite a departure from his travel writing. And because I love his other work, I really liked the feeling of getting to know the man behind the poetry and travel essays.