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The quiet American / Graham Greene ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith.

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Record Number 696485
ISBN 0099478390 (pbk.)
9780099478393 (pbk.)
Author Greene, Graham, 1904-1991
Title The quiet American / Graham Greene ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith.
Publisher/Date London : Vintage, 2002.
Pagination etc. xi, 180 p. ; 20 cm.
Series Vintage classics
Contents note Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1955.
Summary Note Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love?
Subject Indochinese War, 1946-1954 -- Fiction
Americans -- Vietnam -- Fiction
Classical fiction.
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