Our Man in Havana

Informationen zum Autor Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator . He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991. Christopher Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media in a career that spanned more than four decades and made him a prominent public intellectual, and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. His books include The Monarchy ; Blood, Class, and Nostalgia ; No One Left to Lie To and God Is Not Great . He died in 2011. Klappentext Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he`s tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated. Zusammenfassung Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. ‘British Intelligence being sent up something rotten’ Daily Telegraph Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts.

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As comical, satirical, atmospherical an "entertainment" as he has given us Daily Telegraph

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Graham Greene, Greene Graham
• Con la collaborazione di: Christopher Hitchens (Introduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780099286080
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928608-0
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Narrativa > Romanzi > Letteratura contemporanea (dal 1945); FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, Espionage & spy thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction