Greene, A Burnt-Out Case.
Greene, A Burnt-Out Case.
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Greene, Graham. A Burnt-Out Case. First Edition. London / Melbourne / Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd., 1961. 13 x 20.5cm. 256 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Slightly foxed, spine sunned, otherwise very good condition. The somewhat forbidding title of Graham Greene’s novel is a term used for those victims of leprosy who can be cured because the disease has eaten about all that it wants — toes, ears, fingers. “A Burnt-Out Case” is a fascinating study of the relationship of suffering, especially freely accepted suffering — to wholeness. Greene has set his novel in a remote African leprosery run by nuns and priests. They have as their unexpected guest an internationally famous architect named Querry who arrives incognito, trying to escape as far as possible from his past. [The New York Times]
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 Greene, A Burnt-Out Case. |