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"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists... A master of storytelling." - "The Times"

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“The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists... A master of storytelling.” – The Times

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Avoid Razorblades, Sep 12 2000

Par	Adam Lampe (Darwin, Australia) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: 20th Century Its A Battlefield (Paperback)

We are all essentially alone, caught up in our own chemical, physical and social orbits(or "battlefields"), unable to connect with other people or affect our own destinies, like a man on death row. Apparently. Greene plays out a typically existential perspective in terms of the death row simile and, as usual, everything is not as it seems. This is not a story about a man unfairly condemned to death (we never get to meet him), or the machinations of various individuals to get him off. Rather it's about how his situation affects them and, as you can imagine, being part a Greene menagerie, it isn't at all pleasent. The half dozen or so characters we become aquainted with vary wildly in class and preoccupations, and one gets an idea of the variety of London life in the thirties. But they also tend to vary in interest. Undoubtedly, Conrad Drover, the condemned man's brother, is the strongest character: his paranoia provides the only real suspense in the book. But I was rather fond of Condor, a journalist who lives alone above a pub, who creates elaborate fantasy lives which are taken at face value by his friends and workmates. There's a weak section dealing with Condor's landlord, the pub owner, and Drover's sister-in-law going off on a jaunt in the country, a brief and illusory moment of liberation. On the whole, though, this is a poignant novel on the human condition told with Greene's characteristic irony and economy of style.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Great!, Janv. 12 2000

Par	Frank Bodmer (Aarau, Switzerland) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: 20th Century Its A Battlefield (Paperback)

The story is about the people who are in different ways involved with the fate of the bus driver Drover who is condamned to death sentence. A clever constructed story which tests all persons who take part of it. The tension bases on the different ways these people manage it. It was astonishing that the main person Drover never appears. Although he acts as the read line. At the beginning it is quite confusing but it is worth finishing it because after seeing it clearly, you will be fascinated.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Pleasantly surprised by this early work, Janv. 29 1999

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This review is from: 20th Century Its A Battlefield (Paperback)

I read this somewhat early novel by Graham Greene half expecting to find it slow going, but I was pleasantly surprised by the effective, dramatic development of the story, which centers around the people who know a bus driver held for murder.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 Very Stupid
The story was very stupid, I was not able to understand anything. There are so many different places where the story plays that you have to take care not to fall asleep. Read more

Publi� le D�c 21 2000

4.0�toiles sur 5 Portrait of an uneasy city
Greene depicts, through a grey, dreary London, a picture of a society ill at ease with itself, struggling to come to terms with its lack of direction. Read more

Publi� le D�c 20 2000