THE COMEDIANS, A Novel by Graham Greene, 1996

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Author: Graham Greene. Published by The Viking Press, NY, USA.,1966, Book Club Edition. Very Good Condition HARDCOVER Book, with minor wear to Good Condition Unclipped Dust Jacket. Tight spine, clean inside. THE COMEDIANS, A Novel by Graham Greene, is a novel set in Haiti during the regime of Francois Papa Doc Duvalier who was a brutal dictator and ruled the country from 1957 to 1971. The Comedians is set in a Haiti ruled by Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Just as The Quiet American offered a preview of the coming horrors of American involvement in Vietnam, this novel presages the chaos in Haiti. "Graham Greene arouses responses of curiosity and attention comparable to those set up by Malraux. Faulkner and Hemingway" (New Statesman). It is the basis for the 1967 film starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Paul Ford and Lillian Gish. "The story centers on a small group of people, the Comedians, who come to Haiti to play their parts. They include Mr. Brown, born in Manaco, who owns a hotel in Haiti, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, an American couple who have come to try to create a vegetarian center, Mr. Jones, who is a mysterious man with a military background, and Madame Martha Pineda, wife of the ambassador to Haiti from Venezuela and who is having an extra-marital affair with Brown." -Reviewed by John Martin. ISBN: B0078EPH2C GC&C Stock #1868 Show more