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Original Title:	The Quiet American
ISBN:	0143039024 (ISBN13: 9780143039020)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Thomas Fowler, Alden Pyle, Phuong, Vigot
Setting:	Vietnam

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Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress.

First published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone.

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Title	:	The Quiet American
Author	:	Graham Greene
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 180 pages
Published	:	August 31st 2004 by Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions (first published 1955)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Literature. Novels. Cultural. Asia

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I am passionate about the history of Indochina. Graham Greene is one of those who know so well how to imbue their history with the unique atmosphere of this part of Asia to which fate has bound us.A quiet American (but not that much), Alden Pyle, a disillusioned English reporter, a bit cynical (Fowler), came to cover the events of 1952 (last years of the Indochina war, with the difficulties of the French army in this territory coveted by others ...), a young Indochinese, Phuong, here is the

The other day it occurred to me that this jarringly complex book was a wry attempt on Graham Greenes part to defrock the dreaded americanos of The Power and Glory with an ironic image - the gregarious, wellmeaning, crewcut volunteers of that brave invention, the Peace Corps. Greene was always so perplexed by the bizarre and continually morphing forms of violent behaviour in the world - and stymied by the fact that so many of the cleared paths open to it are paved by bystanders like Pyles

As a critique of American intervention in foreign affairs, the story was excellent. The "quiet" American (he never shuts up) steps into a world he knows nothing about and creates havoc. My problem with the book was a problem common to many similar authors (DeLillo, I'm looking at you): it was very male-centric and I got annoyed. Phuong, the love/lust/possession interest in the book, was never given a character, described as innocent, childish, a sexual object, and a caretaker in turn. I realize

This was actually read for my university course. We were tasked to read a book (or watch a movie but...) and write a paper about how a journalist is presented in the. Unfortunately, there was a blacklist as well and all the books I had in my mind were on it. So I had to look for a new one. And I am a bit angry that I did not know this book before! Graham Greene has a unique way how to tell a story and I really liked it.Death was far more certain than God. The most interesting was the difference

Ive only read three Graham Greenes so far, but he definitely seems like a writer whose works I should look into more. Prior to this, Id read Our Man in Havana and The Power and the Glory. This is a little like a mash up of both. Theres the inept skulduggery of the first, and the searing bleakness and cynicism of the second. Greene is my kind of guy: Hes got a jaundiced view of people and the world. This novel thrums with moral ambiguity. And reading this now in 2012, some 60 years after it was

Relationships are complicated by human failings. It's one of British author Graham Greene's themes, and it's fair enough and true. And in Green's world a happy ending is, at best, an ambivalent one. This would explain why I have such a hard time enjoying his books.He was a great writer. His stories often get to the heart of the matter, eventually. The problem is, he wrote so accurately about human behavior as to make his novels quite trying to one's patience. If you're looking for flawed

4 and a half stars, rounded up. This is a novel about the good intentions that pave the road to HellGreenes prose is truly beautiful, simple yet elegant, and I couldnt stop thinking about how eerie it was that he penned this novel in 1955, making it more than a bit prophetic: it could be looked at either as a strange love triangle, or as a metaphor for the way naïve, well-meaning Americans clumsily try to help out people they perceive as less privileged or sophisticated than them and wreck