| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Author |
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| Selling Price |
$9.99
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| Genre |
Fiction |
| Publication Date |
1966 |
| Format |
Hardcover
(210
mm)
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| Publisher |
Viking Penguin |
| Language |
English |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket |
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| Plot |
| This is Graham Green's first novel since 1961. Set in Haiti, where terror rides and death comes frequently and swiftly in the night, it is a story of love and adventure, hope and disillusion. Like one of its predecessors, The Quiet American, it is also a story about the committed and the uncommitted. The Haitian, Doctor Magiot, is committed. His last letter to Brown, the story's narrator, is a statement and an appeal by the committed - by a man whose nature forces him to share the terrible events of his time. But the others - the comedians - have opted out. Brown a disenchanted part-Englishman from Monaco, a hotel owner; Smith and his wife, an American couple on a good-will mission; Martha, the young German wife of a Latin-American diplomat; Jones, an engaging fool and soldier of fortune on his own mysterious business; all these play their parts - respectable or shady - in the foreground. They experience love affairs rather than love; they have enthusiasms - such as Mr. Smith's for his vegetarian answer to the world's discord - but not a faith; and if they die, they die by accident. There are other Haitians, too; henchmen of Papa Doc, the dictator, or in secret rebellion against him. With alternating comedy, irony, and grim violence, Greene weaves these lives in a pattern of mounting suspense. |
| Personal Details |
| Condition |
Very Good |
| Owner |
FamilyHistorySites |
| FHS ItemID |
20040378 |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PR6013.R44C5 1981 |
| Dewey |
823.912 19 |
| ISBN |
0670232084 |
| Edition |
Book Club Edition |
| Nr of Pages |
275 |
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