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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In Graham Greene's final novel a secretive stranger takes Victor Baxter out of a boarding school much like that of Greene's own youth. The "Captain" changes the boy's name to Jim and brings him to London to serve as a surrogate son to a mysterious woman named Liza. Raised in odd, touching circumstances, Jim never comprehends the enduring relationship between the Captain and Liza, and he struggles to understand what love itself is. Although the novel...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
The gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town tells the story of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul, ' a whiskey-sodden figure of dubious authority who is taken by a group of revolutionaries.
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