The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Oct '04

Should be back in stock very soon

The Heart of the Matter cover

Winner of the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and considered one of the best English language novels of the twentieth century.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequen

Primarily a novel about the moral consequences of religious belief, but it is almost as importantly a novel about colonialism * Independent *
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings -- V. S. Pritchett * The Times *
Here is this man who can represent ordinary life, ordinary troubles, and make them exciting to read about -- Shirley Hazzard * Guardian *

ISBN: 9780099478423

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 202g

288 pages