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England Made Me (Paperback)

by Graham Greene (Author)
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Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin sister Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as a bodyguard to Krogh, her lover and boss, an all-powerful Swedish financier. But Farrant does have a sense of decency. When Krogh gives orders that offend him, he leaks information to Minty, a down-trodden journalist, with drastic results. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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“Greene arouses responses of curiosity and attention comparable to those set up by Malraux, Faulkner and Hemingway.” –New Statesman

“Greene can never be less than wonderfully readable.” –Daily Telegraph --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Clash of Values, April 17 2002
A short, yet interesting novel set largely in Stockholm. The Englishman Anthony Farrant, through the good offices of his twin sister Kate, gets a job with the Swedish businessman Krogh. What follows thereafter is a slow exposure of the different sets of values held by Krogh and the other characters (who are mainly British residents in Sweden).

I thought that "England Made Me" is a deeply anxious work: the British (with one notable exception) are, for all their faults, fundamentally humane but lack any willpower. Krogh however is inhumane, shallow and yet totally driven. I reflected that perhaps Greene was intending this to be an allegory: the mid-twentienth century British lack any self-confidence and fall back on a mythical idea of decency derived from their spurious public school traditions, whereas Krogh represents the stark face of (then) modern capitalism - utterly lacking in compassion, amoral and foreign.

An interesting period piece.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Truth is a Dangerous Thing, Jun 16 1998
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A novel about the black sheep of a British family, England Made Me is an indictment of the "solid morals" that English society held fast to in the early twentieth century, and an incisive look at what "doing the right thing" actually leads to.
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