The comedians
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Duvalier, François, 1907-1971 > Fiction. Political corruption > Fiction. Haiti > Politics and government > Fiction. Haiti > History > 1934-1986 > Fiction. Haiti > Fiction. |
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- ISBN: 9780099478379
- Physical Description xx, 292 pages.
- Publisher London : Vintage books, 2009.
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General Note: | "Vintage Greene"--Cover. Originally published : London : Bodley Head, 1966. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 18.99 |
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The Comedians
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...