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In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption.
Introduction by John Updike
Introduction by John Updike
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Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by"Time"magazine
Greene s masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly. John Updike, from the Introduction
Brilliant... a splendid achievement. "The Atlantic Monthly"
[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other. William Golding, Nobel Prize winning author of"Lord of the Flies"
No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene. "Time"
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
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Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by Time magazine "Greene's masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly." --John Updike, from the Introduction "Brilliant . . . a splendid achievement." --The Atlantic Monthly "[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other." --William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies "No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene." --Time "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
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Greene s masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly. John Updike, from the Introduction
Brilliant... a splendid achievement. "The Atlantic Monthly"
[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other. William Golding, Nobel Prize winning author of"Lord of the Flies"
No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene. "Time"
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
"
Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by Time magazine "Greene's masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly." --John Updike, from the Introduction "Brilliant . . . a splendid achievement." --The Atlantic Monthly "[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other." --William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies "No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene." --Time "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
'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike
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- PublisherAmereon Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0884116565
- ISBN 13 9780884116561
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages237
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