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The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
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Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099478423
SKU
KSG0021669
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Ref
99-1
About Graham Greene
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Heart of the Matter
Primarily a novel about the moral consequences of religious belief, but it is almost as importantly a novel about colonialism
Independent
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings
V. S. Pritchett
The Times
Here is this man who can represent ordinary life, ... Read more
Independent
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings
V. S. Pritchett
The Times
Here is this man who can represent ordinary life, ... Read more