Our Man In Havana: An Introduction By Christopher Hitchens

Author: Graham Greene

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  • : $17.00 NZD
  • : 9780099599975
  • : Vintage Publishing
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  • : April 2015
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

'He carried with him the breath of beaches and the leathery smell of a good club'

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. 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 carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.

Promotion info

HERE COMES A VINTAGE SUMMER Escape your daily grind with Vintage Summer Classics. Get away from the sound and the fury, far from the madding crowd. Recline on Chesil Beach and take a dip in the sea, the sea. Be you in Havana or a town like Alice, these are books to transport you to a lawn, or the sea with a sailor or Captain, when ordinary life falls from grace.

Reviews

"the human story is warm and the satiree made me laugh out loud" Daily Express, Simon Shepherd's Six Best Books

Author description

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.