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The quiet american

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This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission

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Detail Information

Series Title

Penguin classics

Call Number

A F GRE q

Publisher

New York : Penguin Books., 2004

Collation

xx, 180 p ; 22 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780143039020

Classification

F

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Edition

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Subject(s)

Political fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Vietnam
War correspondents
Indochina
Americans

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Statement of Responsibility

Graham Greene, introduction by Robert Stone.

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