
Loving Graham Greene
A Novel
Gloria Emerson(Author)
Random House USA Inc (Publisher)
Published on 16. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-385-72035-9 (ISBN)
Description
This marvelous debut novel by former New York Times correspondent and National Book Award--winner Gloria Emerson is a witty and deeply affecting portrait of the stubborn hopes and disillusionment of a privileged woman who dreams of making a difference in the world.
The polite correspondence she shares with the novelist Graham Greene inspires Molly Benson to see him as her moral guiding light. After his death in 1991, Molly sets out to honor his memory by going on a mission with two friends to Algeria at the start of that nation's brutal civil war, intending to save intellectuals from Islamic fundamentalist hit squads. But nothing in her genteel existence has prepared her for the perilous journey on which she and her humble delegation are about to embark.
The polite correspondence she shares with the novelist Graham Greene inspires Molly Benson to see him as her moral guiding light. After his death in 1991, Molly sets out to honor his memory by going on a mission with two friends to Algeria at the start of that nation's brutal civil war, intending to save intellectuals from Islamic fundamentalist hit squads. But nothing in her genteel existence has prepared her for the perilous journey on which she and her humble delegation are about to embark.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-385-72035-9 (9780385720359)
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Gloria Emerson's Winners and Losers received the National Book Award. Ms. Emerson lives in New York.