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020			_a9780142437995
082			_a823.91 _bGRE
100			_aGreene, Graham
245			_aThe heart of the matter
260			_bPenguin Classics, _c2004. _aNew York :
300			_axviii, 255p. ; _c22 cm.
365			_b1050.00 _c₹ _d1.00
490			_aPenguin Classics
520			_aGraham Greene's masterpiece The Heart of the Matter tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor?a vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis makes for a novel that is suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matter is the unforgettable portrait of one man, flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith..
650			_aColonial Administrators Novels
650			_aAdultery Fiction
650			_aAfrica, West Fiction
650			_aWest Africa Novels
650			_aBritish Africa Novels
650			_aCatholics Fiction
650			_aChristian Fiction
650			_aMarried People Fiction
650			_aPsychological Fiction
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