The Heart of the Matter (Essential Penguin Paperback)

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140278753 ISBN 13: 9780140278750

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

One of Greene's greatest achievements - his anguished story of personal and moral confusion. Scobie - a police officer in a West African colony - is a good man. People are wary of him, though - disturbed by his scrupulous honesty in a war-torn state where no-one is immune to bribery. But when he falls in love, Scobie is forced into a betrayal of everything that he has ever believed in, with shattering results, and his struggle to maintain the happiness of two women destroys him.

Review:

'The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings.' (The Times)

'Greene was a master of characterisation and this book is no exception.' (The Independent on Sunday)

'In a class by himself – the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety.' (The Independent)

'A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy.' (The New York Times)

Review:

"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy." -- "New York Times