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Set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, this is a powerful and unusual love story told by one of the 20th century''s greatest writers.

Anthony Farrant is back home after lying and cheating his way through one job after another in the Far East. When his adoring sister Kate sets him up with a role in Stockholm as bodyguard to her boss and lover, megalomaniac financier Krogh, Anthony seems set on a path to redemption. But when he receives orders from Krogh that offend his own sense of decency, he begins to leak information to a down-at-heel journalist: a decision that will cost Anthony much more than just his job.

First published in 1935, England Made Me is an early Greene novel and helped to cement his reputation as an important and exciting new writing talent.

''Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of w

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Greene can never be less than wonderfully readable. * Daily Telegraph *

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 05/07/2001
      ISBN13: 9780099286172, 978-0099286172
      ISBN10: 0099286173

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, this is a powerful and unusual love story told by one of the 20th century''s greatest writers.

      Anthony Farrant is back home after lying and cheating his way through one job after another in the Far East. When his adoring sister Kate sets him up with a role in Stockholm as bodyguard to her boss and lover, megalomaniac financier Krogh, Anthony seems set on a path to redemption. But when he receives orders from Krogh that offend his own sense of decency, he begins to leak information to a down-at-heel journalist: a decision that will cost Anthony much more than just his job.

      First published in 1935, England Made Me is an early Greene novel and helped to cement his reputation as an important and exciting new writing talent.

      ''Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of w

      Trade Review
      Greene can never be less than wonderfully readable. * Daily Telegraph *

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