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Originally Posted by Sybarite
Another novel that I managed to come to without having read any other work by the author...
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Yes, Greene is someone who I've been wanting to read for
ages but have never even bought a book by. Part of me has always been holding off in the hope that we might get a relaunch of his work in some attractive editions, but Vintage seem intent on uglyfying their range as much as possible at the moment given them tacky red spines and only mentioning the authors' surnames on the cover (i.e. Vintage Greene). But, since Vintage/Random House owns the rights, I don't envisage my preferred option of Penguin winning them from the Greene estate and putting them out as Modern Classics.
But your description of this book reminds me that I have at least read something by Greene. In school, there was an English exam practice paper in which a few pages of
Our Man In Havana was used. A passage about a man on a pier with a gun.