The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings

- V. S. Pritchett,

The power and energy of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, and ideal communism even more Christian than Communism. Its unit is the individual, not any class

- John Updike,

No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene

The Times

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Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature

John Le Carre

Beautiful prose…melded with page-turning suspense… I defy anyone to read it without weeping

The Week

This is Greene at his raw and powerful best

Sunday Times

The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings

- V. S. Pritchett,

<i>The Power Tnd The Glory</i>'s nameless whisky priest blends seamlessly with his tropical, crooked, anticlerical Mexico. Roman Catholicism is intrinsic to the character and terrain both; Greene's imaginative immersion in both is triumphant

John Updike

'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John UpdikeDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.'This is Greene at his raw and powerful best' Sunday Times
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During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.
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The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings
'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099286097
Publisert
2001-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
174 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.