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Jun 24, 2009
Kathy
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What I most like about the Graham Greenes (the ones I like, that is) is the stark realism, the hope on the edge of despair, the searching, unfulfilled quality so many of his characters embody, the twist at the end that should have been expected. This book has some of that (and I did expect that concluding twist), but it was also delightfully amusing, with a bit of melancholy to temper the aunt's devil-may-care antics.
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Aug 10, 2020
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marked it as mt-tbr
