Rather, because it gave me permission to be stirred. Not because it stirred deep emotion inside of me. that cancer that festers and eats away at our souls at some time or another, and that wanting desire to escape it all. The suffering that we harbor for ourselves and others, the anguish of desiring love but not feeling worthy, the turmoil that accompanies those secret wrongs that we've contributed to. His story of internal struggle is one that I and I'm sure many relate to. I know Mr.Scobie/Greene, as this book is a reflection of his experiences. I did not feel that the Author was trying to convince me of anything.and yet I felt deeply.
I recall the 2 characters in the story refer to "the Heart of the Matter," as honest, and I totally agree. In 2005, the it was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.I first heard of this book while listening to Chimamanda Adichie's, Americanah. It was named by The Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. He will be read and remembered as the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety" (William Golding). ''Graham Greene was in a class by himself.
As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor-a vortex leading directly to murder. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. It tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to. The Heart of the Matter was enormously popular, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom upon its release and went on to win the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Greene. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Randall Scott with my greetings from Graham Greene.” An excellent example with light rubbing and wear to the topstain in a very good dust jacket with some of the usual wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First edition of what many consider the author’s masterpiece.
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