The Heart of the Matter (Essential Penguin Paperback) - Softcover
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One of Greene's greatest achievements - his anguished story of personal and moral confusion. Scobie - a police officer in a West African colony - is a good man. People are wary of him, though - disturbed by his scrupulous honesty in a war-torn state where no-one is immune to bribery. But when he falls in love, Scobie is forced into a betrayal of everything that he has ever believed in, with shattering results, and his struggle to maintain the happiness of two women destroys him.
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'The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings.' (The Times)
'Greene was a master of characterisation and this book is no exception.' (The Independent on Sunday)
'In a class by himself – the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety.' (The Independent)
'A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy.' (The New York Times)
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"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy." -- "New York Times
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140278753
- ISBN 13 9780140278750
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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