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...review of Graham Greene's new book A Burnt-Out Case, drew a chuckle from the remark "and only Graham Greene could think of this," in reference to a "boy" named Deo Gratias. I don't know who thought of it, but this is in fact quite a common name in East Africa as well as in the Congo...
...published a review of Graham Greene's latest novel, A Burnt-Out Case, under the unsavory title, "Love Among the Lepers." As the person to whom the book is dedicated, I cannot but express my deep concern at your warped and lurid analysis of the novel. Since you agree that the theme of the novel does not center on the disease, you have deliberately and, in my estimation, shamefully exploited medieval attitudes to ward leprosy which render needless sensationalism. Graham Greene, as a novelist, has a right to choose whatever background he finds suitable to his writings, in this...
...Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (4) 3. Advise and Consent, Drury (2) / 4. To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee (3) / 5. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (6) / 6. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (5) / 7. Winnie Hie Pu, Milne / 8. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene 9. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) / 10. Shadows on the Grass, Dinesen...
...Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene. Deadened in spirit, as a leper is benumbed in body, a famed architect takes himself off to a leper colony, closely followed by a venal journalist intent upon according him canonization-by-newsprint. Never has Greene stated more eloquently his lifelong argument with...
...BURNT-OUT CASE (248 pp.)-Graham Greene-Viking...