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A Burnt-out Case
Graham Greene
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Description for A Burnt-out Case
Paperback. Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 166.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However, in the heat of the tropics, no relationship with a married woman, will ever be taken as innocent...
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099478430
SKU
V9780099478430
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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 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.
Reviews for A Burnt-out Case
No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene
The Time
A superb storyteller
New York Times
Graham Greene taught us to understand the social and economic cripples in our midst. He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don't suppose his influence will ever disappear
Auberon Waugh
Independent
A masterly storyteller... An enormously popular writer who was also one of the most significant novelists of his time
Newsweek
One of our greatest authors... Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations... For experience of a whole century he was the man within
Norman Sherry
Independent
Mr Greens' extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration...moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion
The Times
His style is spare, that's what is so beautiful. His novels are genuine romans philosophies - novels illustrating ideas
Piers Paul Read
In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety
William Golding
The Time
A superb storyteller
New York Times
Graham Greene taught us to understand the social and economic cripples in our midst. He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don't suppose his influence will ever disappear
Auberon Waugh
Independent
A masterly storyteller... An enormously popular writer who was also one of the most significant novelists of his time
Newsweek
One of our greatest authors... Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations... For experience of a whole century he was the man within
Norman Sherry
Independent
Mr Greens' extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration...moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion
The Times
His style is spare, that's what is so beautiful. His novels are genuine romans philosophies - novels illustrating ideas
Piers Paul Read
In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety
William Golding