The Power and the Glory
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The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for. 'This is Greene at his raw and powerful best' Sunday Times
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings -- VS. Pritchett
The power and energy of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, and ideal communism even more Christian than Communism. Its unit is the individual, not any class -- John Updike
No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene * The Times *
Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature * John Le Carre *
Beautiful prose…melded with page-turning suspense… I defy anyone to read it without weeping * The Week *
The power and energy of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, and ideal communism even more Christian than Communism. Its unit is the individual, not any class -- John Updike
No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene * The Times *
Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature * John Le Carre *
Beautiful prose…melded with page-turning suspense… I defy anyone to read it without weeping * The Week *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099286097 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099286092 |
| Titel | The Power and the Glory |
| Autor | Graham Greene |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2001-03-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 240 |
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