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The Honorary Consul
Graham Greene
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Description for The Honorary Consul
Paperback. Graham Greene's gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of his finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of revolutionaries. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels.
In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum - a British consul with dubious authority and a notorious fondness for drink - is kidnapped by rebels in a case of mistaken identity. The young but world-weary Doctor Eduardo Plarr, is left to pick up the pieces and secure Fortnum's release, wading through a sea of incompetence and unearthing corruption among authorities and revolutionaries in the process.
First published in 1973, The Honorary Consul was one of Greene's own favourites ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099478386
SKU
V9780099478386
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Ref
99-36
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 Honorary Consul
Perhaps the most enduring novel that even he has give us
Daily Mail
The tension never relaxes and one reads hungrily from page to page, dreading the moment it will end
Evening Standard
Greene's work attempts to link the serious moral imagination with the spirit of adventure and romance and to extend the remapping of imaginative ... Read more
Daily Mail
The tension never relaxes and one reads hungrily from page to page, dreading the moment it will end
Evening Standard
Greene's work attempts to link the serious moral imagination with the spirit of adventure and romance and to extend the remapping of imaginative ... Read more