The quiet American
By: Graham Greene ; introduction by Robert Stone.
Edition: Deluxe ed.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Americans -- Indochina -- Fiction; British -- Indochina -- Fiction; War correspondents -- Fiction; Indochina -- Fiction; Vietnam -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx).
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