Graham Greene Country
Author | : Paul Hogarth |
Publisher | : Pavilion Books |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul Hogarth |
Publisher | : Pavilion Books |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504052544 |
A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1412849012 |
The story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot and breaks all currency regulations.
Author | : Richard Greene |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 039365107X |
A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene’s extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds new light on one of the foremost modern writers.
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Guinea |
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Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2010-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1409020223 |
'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir. . . of a man I had grown to love over those five years' GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL is Graham Greene's account of a five-year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu, one of the few men in the National Guard whom the General trusted completely. It is a fascinating tribute to an inspirational politician in the vital period of his country's history, and to an unusual and enduring friendship.
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Murder for hire |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Hogarth |
Publisher | : Royal Academy Publications |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
"Literature was another great force in Paul's life and it is through his collaborations with celebrated writers including Doris Lessing, Bredan Behan, Graham Greene, Robert Graves and Lawrence Durrell that Paul's work has become familiar to millions across the globe."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Gloria Emerson |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393349330 |
The National Book Award–winning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the war’s fiftieth anniversary. Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emerson’s powerful portrait of the Vietnam War. From soldiers on the battlefield to protesters on the home front, Emerson chronicles the war’s impact on ordinary lives with characteristic insight and brilliance. Today, as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, much of the physical and emotional damage from that conflict—the empty political rhetoric, the mounting casualties, and the troubled homecomings of shell-shocked soldiers—is once again part of the American experience. Winners and Losers remains a potent reminder of the danger of blindly applied American power, and its poignant truths are the legacy of a remarkable journalist.