The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Softcover

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039024 ISBN 13: 9780143039020

Publisher: Penguin Group, 1900

Synopsis

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas.

As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress.

Originally published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone.

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About this title

Review:

"No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene." --Time

Book Description:

CENTENARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH'A great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation. Prophet-like' Alec Guinness

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0143039024
• ISBN 13: 9780143039020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180