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The Quiet American [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Graham Greene (Author)
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Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy. As his native optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, cannot stand aside and just watch. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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"There has been no novel of any political scope about Vietnam since Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American." -- Harper's --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2.0 out of 5 stars You know classics, and this isn't one of them., Jan 14 2000
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Stop. The emporer has no clothes. There is something of a story and plot here to keep you, but the dialogue is horrendous. There are kids in high school lit classes that can write better dialogue that this. You will find hard to recollect when the last time you heard adults conversing like this, no matter what the intentions of the author. Yes, there are simpletons in this world, but characters like Pyle are too extreme to permit any believability. Next time I wont go from Hemingway to Greene.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It Leaves You In A Quandry, Jul 13 2004
By James Gallen (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Quiet American (Audio Cassette)
Set during the French War in Vietnam, "The Quiet American" is a multifaceted story told in the words of Thomas Fowler, a cynical British correspondent and one of the novel's two main characters. The story involves a struggle between Fowler and Pyle, an American undercover operative and Fowler's romantic rival. Pyle and Fowler hold opposing views of the war, love, God, democracy, whatever matters to man, they disagree about. Fowler, whose vision of reality stifles his belief in ideals, emerges as a romantic and ideological rival of Pyle, whose ideals blind him to reality. America's Cold War policy in Southeast Asia is critically presented in the person of Pyle. Masterfully written, Graham Greene confronts us with two flawed, stereotypical characters and leaves us to determine the hero and the villain. I still have not made up my mind. A work which can leave the reader in such a quandary is a great work of art. Read and form your own conclusions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Keep in Mind when this book was Written, Feb 17 2004
This review is from: The Quiet American (Hardcover)
This book was published in 1955 so Graham Greene didn't have the hindsight that we have almost 40 years later; so he was very accurate and prophetic.
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3.0 out of 5 stars war story with love trouble
The story plays in the Vietnam war in 1954. A british journalist, Fowler, lives with his mistress Phuong in Saigon. Read more
Published on Jun 16 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars A intensive story
At the beginnig I didn't understand much about the story, the people and the circimstances at this time. Read more
Published on Jun 16 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Kind of Prophetic
Graham Greene is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors since I recently read The Power and the Glory, The End of the Affair, and now this masterpiece. Read more
Published on May 22 2003 by oddsfish

5.0 out of 5 stars "Malpractice of Heart and Illegitimate Process"
The excerpt comes from a quote from the poet Arthur Hugh Clough that serves as one of THE QUIET AMERICAN's two epigraphs. Read more
Published on April 27 2003 by James Paris

5.0 out of 5 stars Set it Vietnam in the 1950s, it's a warning about the future
Graham Greene wrote this novel in 1955. It's set in the early fifties when Vietnam was still Indo-China and there was a war raging between the French and the Vietnamese. Read more
Published on May 25 2002 by Linda Linguvic

5.0 out of 5 stars The First Vietnam War Novel
Graham Greene is the sort of writer with very broad appeal. He deals with important ideas, and his fiction has real substance, but at the same time his novels are virtually... Read more
Published on Feb 13 2002 by Samir Quntar al-Muti

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the master's best
This book is one of the best examples of Graham Greene's gift of weaving a personal story, usually centered around a rather ordinary and unattractive character, into the events of... Read more
Published on Aug 30 2001 by Doug Samuelson

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and Entertaining
A capsule summation of "The Quiet American" doesn't do justice to this tremendous novel. In brief, a young American idealist and a cynical middle-aged journalist vie for... Read more
Published on Aug 20 2001 by Ethan Cooper

4.0 out of 5 stars End of Empire
Some people hate this book, but what they really detest is the antihero protaganist, Fowler, a jaded and decaying British journalist observing a naive American, Pyle, slowly... Read more
Published on Jul 19 2001 by Nichomachus

4.0 out of 5 stars Stands on it's own
At this point in time to speak of the prophetic quality of this novel set in Vietnam in the 50's probably has been done to death. Read more
Published on Jun 11 2001 by R. J. Marsella

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