Our Man in Havana
(Libby/OverDrive eBook, Kindle)
Author
Contributors
Greene, Graham Author
Series
Published
Open Road Media , 2018.
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Description
MI6’s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true… First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene’s most widely read novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates today. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
More Details
Format
eBook, Kindle
Street Date
04/10/2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781504052535
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Graham Greene and Ward Just both explore themes of power, privilege, and politics in serious, elegant novels that focus on their character's interior moral dilemmas. These political and ethical issues often play out in exotic settings, with disenfranchised characters struggling to make hard choices in morally ambivalent circumstances. -- Victoria Fredrick
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Graham Greene and Kazuo Ishiguro explore the inner lives of complex, compelling characters who are faced with moral dilemmas that arise from the situations around them. Both writers use straightforward and elegant prose to provide vivid settings as backdrops to fast-moving storylines. -- Katherine Johnson
Readers looking for another writer who sets stories of moral choices in exotic surroundings might enjoy Nadine Gordimer or Graham Greene. Both have characters facing difficult choices and struggling with moral decisions, although Gordimer's milieu is family relationships. Some Greene fans will also appreciate the strong Catholic religious component. -- Shauna Griffin
These two authors share a strong religious sensibility grounded in Catholicism; their stories generally share a sense of redemption, though neither shies away from less attractive aspects of the human condition. The strong Southern regional nature of Flannery O'Connor's work provides as much exotic sensory as Graham Greene's tropical settings. -- Shauna Griffin
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Published Reviews
Library Journal Reviews
Greene's vintage "entertainment" deftly satirizes the whole genre, exposing the essential absurdity of tradecraft in the form of vacuum cleaner salesman James Wormold, whom British Intelligence unwittingly recruits as an agent in Havana. Wormold's hapless attempts to pass off invented knowledge—including the blueprints for one of his prized vacuums as a potential atomic weapon—provide laughs before reaching a mournful climax.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Greene, G. (2018). Our Man in Havana . Open Road Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Greene, Graham. 2018. Our Man in Havana. Open Road Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Greene, Graham. Our Man in Havana Open Road Media, 2018.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Greene, G. (2018). Our man in havana. Open Road Media.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Greene, Graham. Our Man in Havana Open Road Media, 2018.
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