Graham Greene

The Human Factor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

à â Ë Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubtà â â The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions.

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 601156
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9780099288527
• ISBN-10: 0099288524
• Artikelnr.: 22226326

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

'As fine a novel as he has ever written - concise, ironic, acutely observant of contemporary life, funny, shocking, above all compassionate'