The Green Paradise: Autobiography Volume 1

This translation of the first volume of his four-volume autobiography, which covers his early life to age 15, represents an attempt to ``find the gossamer thread that passes through my life from birth to death, the one that binds, explains.'' Paramount are the mothering by his Southern belle mother and sisters; his attraction to other boys, and early religious faith, which underscores a later conversion to Catholicism.