The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics)

Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics)

by Graham Greene (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2004

    $3.83

  • Used

    Paperback 1991

    $3.88

  • Used

    Hardcover 2002

    $30.82

  • New

    Paperback 2004

    $11.59
Synopsis

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.

$3.83

Save:$8.81 (70%)

Quantity

2 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Jan 2004
ISBN 10: 0099286084
ISBN 13: 9780099286080
Book Overview: 'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time

Media Reviews
'As comical, satirical, atmospherical an entertainment as he has given us' - Daily Telegraph. 'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' - Time. 'He had a sharp nose for trouble and injustice. In Our Man In Havana - a witty send-up of an agent's life - it was Cuba before Castro' - Financial Times.
Author Bio
Graham Greene was born in 1904. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for four years as sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth novel, Stamboul Train. In 1935 he made a journey across Liberia, described in Journey Without Maps, and on his return was appointed film critic of the Spectator. In 1926 he had been received into the Roman Catholic Church and visited Mexico in 1938 to report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, his famous novel The Power and the Glory. Brighton Rock was published in 1938 and in 1940 he became literary editor of the Spectator. The next year he undertook work for the Foreign Office and was stationed in Sierra Leone from 1941 to 1943. This later produced the novel The Heart of the Matter, set in West Africa. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography - A Sort of Life, Ways of Escape and A World of My Own (published posthumously) - two of biography and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews, some of which appear in the collections Reflections and Mornings in the Dark. Many of his novels and short stories have been filmed and The Third Man was written as a film treatment. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.