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by Graham Greene (Author) "WILSON sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork..." (more)
Key Phrases: money spider, transport park, non sum dignus, Major Scobie, Father Rank, South Africa (more...)

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Michael Kitchen's excellent voice comes to embody the gin and rain-sodden cheer that epitomized the late British Empire in the tropics. The novel's hero, Scobie, is a police official who has conflated duty with love and who doesn't get much pleasure out of either. We have the fevers, corruption, even a war, but because this is Graham Greene writing, the real damage below the water line is not done by the U-boat, but by our hero's own character. Kitchen does the Brits, the carping wife, the sorrowful mistress, locals honest and locals who lie like rugs. Everyone speaks politely, precisely, incessantly, and yet it seems not to matter at all. This road goes right to hell. B.H.C. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy." -- New York Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (November 5, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140184961
ISBN-13: 978-0140184969
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces

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Key Phrases - SIPs: money spider, transport park, non sum dignus

Key Phrases - CAPs: Major Scobie, Father Rank, South Africa, Colonel Wright, Father Clay (more)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
money spider, transport park, non sum dignus

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Major Scobie, Father Rank, South Africa, Colonel Wright, Father Clay, Sharp Town, Bedford Hotel, Miss Malcott, Hail Mary, Louise Scobie, Miss Wilberforce, Arthur Bishop, Cape Town, Frau Groener

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This book cites 45 books:

The Lawless Roads (Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
Mornings in the Dark (Carcanet Film) by Graham Greene in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
A sort of life by Graham Greene in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)

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100 books cite this book:

Conversations With Graham Greene (Literary Conversations Series) by Graham Greene on 20 pages
Graham Greene: An Approach to the Novels (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Robert Hoskins on 17 pages
Fighting Evil: Unsung Heroes in the Novels of Graham Greene (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) by Haim Gordon on 9 pages
Traveling on the Edge: Journeys in the Footsteps of Graham Greene by Julia Llewellyn Smith on 6 pages
Commonweal Confronts the Century : Liberal Convictions, Catholic Tradition by Editors of commonweal mag on 4 pages

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