The Quiet American - Graham Greene Reviews

Graham Greene is an author whose works explore religion, politics and morals within the modern world. Greene was a convert to Catholicism which provided a lot of material for his literary works. He suffered from bi-polar disorder and later abandoned his wife, whilst never divorcing due to religion. He was also recruited into MI6 by his ...  Read the complete review

This book will lull you into a detached necessity to read...... Excellent, forlorn thoughts and observations from ex-pat reporter in troubled Vietnam..... Decadent, empty, lonely and cynical feelings articulated towards the age gap..... His wisdom of perspective sees through and past the idealism of the young ...  Read the complete review

This is the patent age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls All propagated with the best intentions Byron I first came across The Quiet American in my Chinese girlfriend's bookcase, its spine bound in Penguin orange. Watercolour flames were roaring on the front cover and a man quietly ...  Read the complete review

Set in the last years of French Indo-China (Vietnam), this is a story of dangerous idealism and betrayal. Graham Greene's tired narrator, an English journalist, encounters a naïve American, Pyle, whose dangerous enthusiasms draw them into the conflict. A generation before the American experience in Vietnam, it foreshadows the terrible price of ...  Read the complete review