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Title: The Comedians (Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene ISBN: 0-14-018494-5 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Life in Papa Doc's Haiti.
Comment: I have read Greene's Quiet American and Our Man in Havana. This book is just as good a read as those. Few people have read this as compared to the other two, since the setting is Haiti, the island prison of Papa and Baby Doc. The Duvaliers are gone, but the memory remains in Haiti.
I visited Haiti and Porte au Prince and found the hotel where the setting took place. In fact Graham Greene wrote his story while living in this hotel. It is a great old place owned by a family. Anybody visiting Haiti should stay there. Pictures of this place should be placed in the newer editions of this novel.
For those of you reading this piece of fiction, the Comedians is not funny. It is about people putting a mask on their true feelings, rather than display them in this island dictatorship.
The only true people were the Doctor and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Papa Doc. They did not have to place a mask on their feelings. They were their true selves. Jones, Browne, the Minister of Social Affairs, Martha, and the Ambassador were the ones playing the Comedians in this deadly place. Their struggle in the setting of Papa Doc's Haiti is the story which you see in the Comedians.
This is a good story which is entertaining. The setting of Papa Doc's Haiti is the real thing, but the rest is fiction.
Rating: 5
Summary: Engaging drama set in Papa Doc's Haiti
Comment: The novel opens on a cruise ship steaming toward Haiti. We meet a diverse group of characters who are revealed through the device of setting them in a game of cards on board ship.
Brown, the primary character and narrator is returning to Haiti to reclaim a hotel he inherited and through his eyes we see the political changes occurring in the country and are made aware of the ominous threat of the Tonton Macoute secret police that hangs over the entire story adding dramatic tension.
Jones , his fellow passenger is revealed to be a con-man who gets by on his ability to make others laugh (one of the comedians) . Smith a failed presidential candidate from the US is naively seeking to establish a vegetarian center in Haiti seemingly oblivious to the turmoil all around him.
Brown's romance with the wife of a diplomat provides a subplot that mirrors the theme that everyone is deceiving someone. The comedians all prove to be actors playing on a stage filled with political violence and the everpresent threat of more to come.
This was a very engaging novel and if not Greene's most well known book it may be one of his best. I enjoyed it and highly recommend it for it's memorable characters and stunning evocation of a country approaching chaos.
Rating: 5
Summary: THE POWER OF THE MASTERPIECE
Comment: This is one of the most powerful novels ever written. I think it was the best work of Graham Greene. In this book Greene was able to achieve a very masterful dialog, and he developed so powerful an memorable characters. We can witness how the internal struggle of the main characters intermingles with the power struggle in the country and the problems of the time. This is a very strong book that should be read and known.
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Title: Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment (Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene ISBN: 0140184937 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Heart of the Matter (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Graham Greene ISBN: 0140283323 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Quiet American (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene ISBN: 0140185003 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, John Updike ISBN: 0142437301 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene ISBN: 0140185364 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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