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When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over thirty years. Just like the young woman who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life, he thinks it's possible that in the same process he will discover the answer to questions that have plagued him for decades. But first he has to m...

For readers of Graham Greene, as well as those interested in the real lives of famous authors. While several biographies of Graham Greene have conveyed a great deal of information, never before have readers seen what it was like to know the complicated author, to eat and drink with him, to observe him in various settings, and to trade private confidences. My Man in Antibes draws from correspondence not included in Greene's collected letters ...

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When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over 30 years. Just like the young woman who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life, he hopes to answer questions that have plagued him for decades. But first he has to make sure that she is who she claims to be. In this fascinating me...

Detached and ironic, a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting quip, enigmatic, impossible to truly know: this is the calcified public image of Gore Vidal--one the man himself was fond of reinforcing. "I'm exactly as I appear, " he once said of himself. "There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water."Michael Mewshaw's Sympathy for the Devil, a memoir of his friendship with...

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In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest human emotions.A family matriarch-half Medea, half Clytemnestra-calls home her three children, who take turns narrating the story. Quinn, the wonder boy who has become a successful actor in London, must fly in from England, putting a new love interest and a career-boosting role...

Mewshaw knows two Africas: the picturesque one seen on postcards, and the dangerous one he discovered on African soil. Here, he takes readers from the benign beaches of Morocco to the casbahs of Algeria, where more than 100, 000 people have died during a decade of political strife.

From Simon & Schuster, Year of the Gun is Michael Mewshaw's novel about one writer's quest for the truth.In Rome, where anarchy prevails under The Red Brigade, American writer David Raybourne finds inspiration for a novel on terrorism. But when an overly ambitious photojournalist meddles in his affairs, the manuscript falls into wrong hands and Raybourne discovers no one can be trusted, not even his lover, as he fights for his life.

From Simon & Schuster, Playing Away is Michael Mewshaw's experience on Roman holidays as well as other Mediterranean encounters.Playing Away includes a wide variety of chapters, including ones on traveling by train, enjoying summertime and alfresco living, the unique aspects of the different Mediterranean cities, and much more about exploring this magic region.

In Money To Burn, Michael Mewshaw tells the story of tobacco heiress Margaret Benson and two of her children in 1985 who were victims of a car bombing.A year after the bombings, Margaret's surviving son was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders. Mewshaw tells the story of what may have been a travesty of justice resulting in the conviction of an innocent man.