The Power And The Glory
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the sweltering, God-forsaken backwaters of 1930s Mexico, a hunted man runs for his life — not because he is a criminal, but because he is a priest. Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory chronicles the desperate flight of a whisky-drinking, morally compromised Roman Catholic priest, the last of his kind in a state where religion has been outlawed and the Church systematically dismantled by a revolutionary government. Pursued relentlessly by a zealous lieutenant of police — a man of iron ideological conviction — the unnamed whisky priest stumbles through mud-soaked villages and hostile jungle, ministering to the faithful even as his own faith buckles under the weight of guilt, cowardice, and human frailty. Greene constructs this pursuit as a supreme moral and spiritual paradox: a sinner who is simultaneously a saint, a coward who performs acts of quiet heroism, a flawed vessel through whom divine grace nonetheless moves. Written in prose of spare, cinematic precision, the novel argues that redemption is not reserved for the righteous, and that God's mercy operates in the most broken of instruments. First published in 1940 and widely regarded as one of the great Catholic novels of the twentieth century, it earned Greene the distinction of being described by William Faulkner as the best novel of the mid-century. The haunting final image leaves the reader to wrestle with the question that beats at the heart of the book: in a world stripped of all ceremony and comfort, what remains of the sacred?
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the sweltering, God-forsaken backwaters of 1930s Mexico, a hunted man runs for his life — not because he is a criminal, but because he is a priest. Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory chronicles the desperate flight of a whisky-drinking, morally compromised Roman Catholic priest, the last of his kind in a state where religion has been outlawed and the Church systematically dismantled by a revolutionary government. Pursued relentlessly by a zealous lieutenant of police — a man of iron ideological conviction — the unnamed whisky priest stumbles through mud-soaked villages and hostile jungle, ministering to the faithful even as his own faith buckles under the weight of guilt, cowardice, and human frailty. Greene constructs this pursuit as a supreme moral and spiritual paradox: a sinner who is simultaneously a saint, a coward who performs acts of quiet heroism, a flawed vessel through whom divine grace nonetheless moves. Written in prose of spare, cinematic precision, the novel argues that redemption is not reserved for the righteous, and that God's mercy operates in the most broken of instruments. First published in 1940 and widely regarded as one of the great Catholic novels of the twentieth century, it earned Greene the distinction of being described by William Faulkner as the best novel of the mid-century. The haunting final image leaves the reader to wrestle with the question that beats at the heart of the book: in a world stripped of all ceremony and comfort, what remains of the sacred?