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A burnt-out case / Graham Greene

By:

Greene, Graham, (, 1904-1991)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books :1977, c1960Description: 198 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780140185393

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Mystery fiction

DDC classification:

FIC GRE

Abstract: Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference : he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. The the white community finds out who Querry is...

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018123

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Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference : he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. The the white community finds out who Querry is...

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