Quiet American (Paperback: Reprint: 180 pages)
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| Introduction by: | Robert B. Stone |
| Author: | Greene Graham |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 180 pages. |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics (08/31/2004) |
| ISBN: | 0143039024 |
| ISBN13: | 9780143039020 |
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A continuously intriguing piece of storytelling....[Greene] has brought into vivid relief a universal human problem--the fearful price of innocence--and has shown that behind innocence there lurk unconscious arrogance and a self-righteous streak of moral blindness.
As in all of Mr. Greene's novels, it concerns the moral life. Pyle, the innocent, dangerous American, and Fowler, the sophisticated, safe Englishman, represent, behind the polish of Mr. Greene's art, the vices and virtues of a morality play. And it is here that Mr. Greene finally fails....The work does not come to terms with its own burden. It takes refuge in easy ways out.
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- In this tale of politics and personal loyalties, set in Vietnam in the 1950s, the narrator is an English journalist named Fowler who lives with his Vietnamese mistress, Phuong, but is unable to convince his Catholic wife to grant him a divorce. In Saigon Fowler meets Pyle, an American intelligence agent who talks of setting up a "third force" to oppose both the colonial powers and the Communist rebels. Fowler finds Pyle and his notions distasteful in their naiveté, but he is curious about the the real nature of Pyle's work in Saigon. A growing conviction that Pyle is orchestrating a campaign of terror coincides with Fowler's discovery that Phuong has abandoned him to marry Pyle, and leads Fowler to an involvement in local affairs that is as personal as it is political.
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