The Quiet American
eBook - 2018
A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom... he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions...
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- Published
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Open Road Media
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
- Format
- Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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ASIN | B07CMCJ4ZP |
Release Date | 3/13/2018 |
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File Size | 4 GB |
ISBN | 9781504052542 |
Release Date | 3/13/2018 |