Blogs in January 1970

The Quiet American 1st January 1970

‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‘Third Force’....

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Brighton Rock 1st January 1970

Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock tells the story of a young leader of one of the infamous razor gangs in 1930s Brighton who murders a journalist and then finds that his attempts to avoid any possibility of arrest lead him...

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The End of the Affair 1st January 1970

Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another and love of God. The affair in...

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Our Man in Havana 1st January 1970

Pre revolutionary Havana, where anything can be obtained by means. Greene skewers British Intelligence. James Wormold is a mild-mannered, marginal businessman and vacuum cleaner salesman, is approached by MI6 and is unwillingly recruited as “Our Man in Havana”. As...

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