The Living Room

by Graham Greene

Publisher Heineman

Genre: General Fiction

Publication date: January 1, 1953

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Overall, good condition with some shelf wear to head and tails of spine as well as foxing to the pages edges and interior pages. Dust Jacket is unclipped, with some wear, small tears, to the spine

About the book

he Living Room is Graham Greene's dramatic, often harrowing, exploration of forbidden love, Catholic guilt, and mortality. Set in a claustrophobic London home, it follows young Rose Pemberton’s affair with a married, older man, Michael, causing a collision with her strict aunts and a disabled priest

About the Author

Graham Greene

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office.

As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

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