The quiet American
(2004, original release: 1955)
Fiction
Book
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FICTION/GREENE,G
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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2004
EDITION
Deluxe edition
DESCRIPTION
xx, 180 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780143039020, 0143039024, 9780143039020
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
"Graham Greene centennial, 1904-2004"--Cover
Introduction / Robert Stone -- Suggestions for further reading / Michael Gorra -- Quiet American
This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission
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