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Beautifully written morality tale about corruption and redemption. I am normally very leery about stories featuring clergy, but Greene doesn't give in to preachiness here. Instead he offers a short tale of a country gone mad, a priest battling his own demons and his own personal Javert, a Marxist lieutenant who comes to learn that there are not as many differences between him and his quarry as he believes.
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I once asked my S.O. what his favorite book he read in school was...and he said The Power and The Glory.
Perhaps it is because I do not share the same beliefs as the whiskey priest that I had a hard time understanding his motives. Why did he not escape on the boat to Vera Cruz in the beginning when he could? Why did go back to the Americano which he knew was a trap instead of to safety in Las Casas? Is a dead "bad" priest better than a living "bad" priest? Even though I do not understand him, I s ...more
Perhaps it is because I do not share the same beliefs as the whiskey priest that I had a hard time understanding his motives. Why did he not escape on the boat to Vera Cruz in the beginning when he could? Why did go back to the Americano which he knew was a trap instead of to safety in Las Casas? Is a dead "bad" priest better than a living "bad" priest? Even though I do not understand him, I s ...more
Read this for a college banned books class. Eh, it was OK.
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