The Heart of the Matter

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Call Number: Fiction / Greene, Graham, Adult Book / Fiction / Religious / Greene, Graham
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Greene, Graham	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Religious / Greene, Graham	4-week checkout	Due 05-04-2024

"Graham Greene's masterpiece The Heart of the Matter tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor?a vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis makes for a novel that is suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matter is the unforgettable portrait of one man, flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith."--Publisher's website.

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Delicate Story of Wartime Colonial Intrigue submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on June 24, 2020, 11:54pm Gains your sympathy for the flawed hero who faces a moral dilemma. Cloaked as an exploration of morals in an expansive narrative, Greene draws on his own life experience in west Africa as a young man. In some ways, the yarn could be interpreted as giving hope to the aspiring writer. NOTE THAT Greene had converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1926, well before he produced this work in 1948.