The Man Within My Head

Pico Iyer's writing style is not felicitous. He often approaches his subject crabwise, backing into his points and putting too many words between subject and verb. And this book, which makes connections between the author and Graham Greene, the "man within his head," has the added defect of being repetitive. All that aside, this is an interesting study, more of Greene than of Iyer, that gives an appetite to read, or re-read, the novels of the conflicted voluptuary.