- Fiction, Diplomats, British, Kidnapping
In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American ambassador.
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Classical in form, prestige, meticulous and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Graham Greene
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- VINTAGE (RAND), BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (ENGLAND), Sterling Audio
- Editions
- 50
- Language
- fin, Italian, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780754053972
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“DOCTOR EDUARDO PLARR STOOD IN THE SMALL PORT on the Parana, among the rails and yellow cranes, watching where a horizontal plume of smoke stretched over the Chaco.”
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers. He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. *The Power and the Glory* won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and *The Heart of the Matter* won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the B
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