412 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 1999 by G.K. Hall, Chivers Press.
The heart of the matter
Graham Greene: The heart of the matter (1999, G.K. Hall, Chivers Press)
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Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.
Subjects
- Large type books
- Colonial administrators -- Fiction
- British -- Africa -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Catholics -- Fiction
- Adultery -- Fiction
- Africa, West -- Fiction