The heart of the matter
by Graham Greene
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Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.
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The heart of the matter
1971, Penguin in association with William Heinemann
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0140017895 9780140017892
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xvii-xviii).
"Graham Greene centennial 1904-2004"--Cover.
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