'The Quiet American' is dark, thoughtful, meticulously crafted, and full of suspense. Thomas Fowler is a British war correspondent who has been in Vietnam for two years. Not being French or Vietnamese, he sees himself as disinterested and apart from the conflict. The novel begins with him waiting fo...
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. The Quiet American is Greene's exploration of relationships and politics against the backdrop of th...
I SUPPOSE the small greenish statue of a man in a wig on a horse is one of the famous statues of the world. I said to Cary, ‘Do you see how shiny the right knee is? It’s been touched so often for luck, like St Peter’s foot in Rome.’ She rubbed the knee carefully and tenderly as though she were poli...
"He envied Jules: to have been able to remain ‘correct’: to have saved his self-respect by small doses of rudeness or inattention. But for him— to have remained correct would have meant death." The Tenth Man is not just a story but a moral experiment: A group of prisoners of war are told that as p...
‘In that case,’ Rowe said, ‘I keep the cake because you see I guessed three pounds five the first time. Here is a pound for the cause. Good evening.’ He’d really taken them by surprise this time; they were wordless, they didn’t even thank him for the note. He looked back from the pavement and saw t...
'It’s a bit too late for that, isn’t it?’ ‘It’s never too late to spit at God Almighty. He lasts for ever and ever, amen. And he made us what we are.’ ‘Perhaps he did, but Doctor Fischer didn’t.’ ‘He made me what I am now.’ ‘Oh,’ I said – I was impatient with the little man who had broken my solitud...
bookshelves: summer-2015, argentina, published-1973, lit-richer, tbr-busting-2015, south-americas, kidnap, mystery-thriller, roman-catholic, memento-mori, paranoia, paraquay, betrayal Read on June 27, 2015 Description: In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dub...
‘I told you I’ve retired.’ ‘One never retires from a vocation.’ ‘Oh yes, make no mistake, one does. One comes to an end.’ ‘What are you here for then? To make love to a black woman?’ ‘No. One comes to an end of that too. Possibly sex and a vocation are born and die together. Let me roll bandages...
This is the last book published in the Graham Greene series. No Man's Land was published posthumously and actually contains two novellas: No Man's Land and The Stranger's Hand. The Stranger's Hand was made into a movie in 1953 with Trevor Howard and Alida Valli. No Man's Land is by far the more ...
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