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Publication
Penguin Classics (1992), Paperback, 208 pages
Description
Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist feeding on fantasies; pretty, promiscuous Kay - all have a part to play in his fate.
Media reviews
On a battlefield each small group of soldiers fights its little individual war, ignorant of the action and its meaning along miles of battlefront. Life, says Graham Greene, is like that. To prove it, he writes in a cinematographic style that shoots a keen, swift-moving camera eye from one point to
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another round the circle of his drama. In "Orient Express" he used the same method, flashing light on lives in widely differing spheres which were somehow connected in a common story. In "It's a Battlefield" he has developed this method still further. Show Less
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LibraryThing member john257hopper
Back cover description quite good, but found this very difficult to get into and unengaging. Gave up around page 50 (quarter of the way through)
LibraryThing member Sean191
I've read five or six Graham Greene novels so far and this has to be my least favorite. Maybe I just didn't have the focus for it, but the characters seemed forgettable and hard to track from one chapter to the next. Still, Greene's writing style as always shines.
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1934
Physical description
208 p.; 7.7 inches
ISBN
0140185410 / 9780140185416