Description: 1st edition ; 1st printing ; hardcover ; dust jacket The Honorary ConsulA Novel Set in a provincial Argentinian town, Graham Greene's new novel takes place in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal and absurd hope that he has explored so precisely in such novels as The Power and the Glory and The Comedians. On the far side of the great, muddy river that separates the two countries lies Paraguay, a brutal dictatorship shaken by sporadic and inefficient revolutionary activity; on the near side, a torpid city whose only visible cultural institution is the brothel, and where life is passed in the sterile and lethargic pursuit of machismo. The foreign colony of the city is made up of refugees, washed up on the banks of the Paraná by some inner disaster or defeat: Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a physician, whose English father has vanished into a Paraguayan prison, and for whom "caring is the only dangerous thing"; Humphries, a teacher of English, who has touched bottom and accepted it; Charley Fortnum, "The Honorary Consul," who at the age of sixty-one, sustained by drink and his disputed status as British Consul, still retains enough (or too much) hope and illusion to marry and love a twenty-year-old girl from Señora Sanchez's brothel...
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Topic: Literature
Subject: Literature & Fiction
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