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The Comedians

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099478379

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 224g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Comedians

A great book confronting forgiveness, faith and failure in the 20th century.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a country in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the con man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099478379

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 224g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety."

    William Golding

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About the Author

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 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.

Graham Greene

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