The Tenth Man - Couverture rigide

Greene, Graham

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 037030831X ISBN 13 : 9780370308319

Editeur : The Bodley Head Ltd, 1985

Synopsis

This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In good all round condition.Dust Jacket in fair condition.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect' Sunday Times

With an introduction by the author

In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with panic, fear, and a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place.

Graham Greene wrote The Tenth Man in 1944, when he was under a two-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the manuscript lay forgotten in MGM's archives until 1983. It was published two years later with an introduction by the author.

See Also: Brighton Rock

Revue de presse :

"Greene was a past master of the psychological thriller and this was no exception" (Observer)

"A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect" (Sunday Times)

"All of the Greene hallmarks are there: pace, ingenuity, a sense of profundities suggested but never insisted upon" (Penelope Lively Sunday Telegraph)

"Typically full of psychological obsession and tricks of perspective, this short story plays games with the concepts of identity and freedom. Threaded through with paranoiac attempts to be sure of time, life, and death, the story ends with impenetrable paradox; with a tragedy and a travesty, a revenge and a redressal, truth and the ultimate lie" (The Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Bodley Head Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1985
• ISBN 10: 037030831X
• ISBN 13: 9780370308319
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 158