A Burnt-Out Case
by Graham Greene
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In Graham Greene's 1961 novel, a famous French architect travels to a leper colony in a remote outpost of the Congo and settles there, apparently with no intention of leaving. Querry, as he is known, has left behind a failed marriage, several mistresses, and a career that has kept him in the public eye for 20 years or more. Like many of the lepers for whom he now builds houses, he is a "burnt-out case," in whom the sickness of despair has run its course but left him permanently maimed. The world, however, will not be so easily put away, and Querry finds his peace threatened even here by the meddling of an ex-seminarian and a journalist who conspire to publicize the story of his "conversion."
Editions of A Burnt-Out Case
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Penguin Group USA |
Date 1992 |
Price £1.00 |
 Fair |
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"The most bizarre of his works and one of the most memorable....Although the tempo is slower than is customary for Greene and there is less than the usual density of incident, 'A Burnt-Out Case' is an absorbing book and a curiously affecting one. The spells of a major novelist take possession of the reader."
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