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Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul
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Audio > Audio books
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286.57 MB

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English
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General Information
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 Title:                  The Honorary Consul
 Author:                 Graham Greene
 Read By:                Tim Pigott-Smith
 Copyright:              1973
 Audiobook Copyright:    2000
 Genre:                  Mystery & Thrillers
 Publisher:              Chivers Audio Books
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 ISBN:                   0-7540-5397-0
 Media:                  CD
 Number:                 8
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Used

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         127
 Total Duration:         10:23:44
 Total MP3 Size:         286.51
 Parity Archive:         No
 Ripped By:              A_S
 Ripped With:            Audiograbber
 Encoded With:           LAME 3.96
 Encoded At:             CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 Normalize:              MP3Gain, Radio 89dB
 Noise Reduction:        None
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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Editorial Reviews
Review
"The tension never relaxes and one reads hungrily from page to page, 
reading the moment it will end." - Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

Book Description

Set in a provincial Argentinean town, The Honorary Consul takes place 
in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal, and absurd hope 
that Graham Greene has explored so precisely in such novels as The Power 
and the Glory and The Comedians.

On the far side of the great, muddy river that separates the two countries 
lies Paraguay, a brutal dictatorship shaken by sporadic revolutionary 
activity; on the near side, a torpid city whose only visible cultural 
institution is a brothel. The foreigners of the city are refugees, each 
washed up on the banks of the Paraná by some inner disaster or defeat: 
Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a physician, whose English father has vanished into 
a Paraguayan prison, and for whom "caring is the only dangerous thing"; 
Humphries, a teacher of English, who has touched bottom and accepted 
it; Charley Fortnum, the Honorary Consul, who at the age of sixty-one, 
sustained by drink and his disputed status as British Consul, still 
retains enough hope and illusion to marry a twenty-year-old girl from 
Señora Sanchez' brothel...

With gathering force, Graham Greene draws his characters into the political 
chaos that lies beneath the surface of South American life. Fortnum 
is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for 
the American Ambassador. Realizing their error, they threaten to execute 
him anyway if their demands are not met. Plarr, torn between his instinctive 
feeling for the revolutionaries -- one of whom is an old friend -- and 
his ambiguous relationship with Fortnum, whose wife he has taken as 
a lover, becomes involved in a tragicomedy that leads inexorably to 
a meaningless death.

At the center of The Honorary Consul is Plarr, a brilliant Graham Greene 
creation, perhaps the most moving and convincing figure in his fiction. 
Plarr is a man so cut off from human feeling, so puzzled by the emotional 
needs of men like Fortnum, that he is paradoxically vulnerable, chillingly 
exposed, and required in the end to pay with his life for the illusions 
that other people believe in and that he himself cannot share.

In the men and women who surround Plarr -- Clara, who has moved from 
the brothel to Charley Fortnum's bedroom; Father Rivas, the revolutionary 
priest who dominates those near him, despite his unsanctified marriage 
and belief in political terror; Saavedra, the Argentinean novelist, 
whose work lugubriously mirrors the world around him; Aquino, the poet-turned-r-
evolutionary; Colonel Perez, the cheerfully efficient chief of police 
-- Graham Greene has created a world peculiarly his own. It is a world 
illuminated by that special passion for the complexities of love, faith, 
compassion, and betrayal that lies at the very heart of his work.