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The quiet American

✍ Scribed by Graham Greene

Publisher: Vintage Books;W. Ross MacDonald School Resource Services Library
Year: 2004;2017
Tongue: UND
Weight: 113 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

EDITORIAL REVIEW:

With a new introduction by Zadie SmithInto the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious “Third Force.” As his naïve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love?

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