With a new introduction by Colm Toibin
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.
'As fine a novel as he has ever written - concise, ironic, acutely
observant of contemporary life, funny, shocking, above all
compassionate'
'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with
tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt'
*The Times*
'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with
tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt'
*The Times*
'It is beautifully done, a pleasure to read, a succession of deft,
unobtrusive, yet masterly touches'
*Guardian*
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