The Power And The Glory
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A landmark of twentieth-century English literature, The Power and the Glory is a taut, morally complex novel set against the brutal backdrop of religious persecution in 1930s Mexico. It chronicles the desperate flight of an unnamed whisky priest — a flawed, guilt-ridden man who is nonetheless the last Catholic clergyman remaining in a state that has outlawed the Church. Pursued relentlessly by a fanatical police lieutenant who represents the cold certainty of a godless ideology, the priest moves through poverty-stricken villages, administering sacraments and confronting his own profound unworthiness. Greene constructs a gripping cat-and-mouse thriller that simultaneously argues one of literature's most enduring paradoxes: that grace and salvation can operate through the most broken of human vessels. Written with spare, haunting precision, the novel stands as a definitive meditation on sin, redemption, and the indestructible nature of faith.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of twentieth-century English literature, The Power and the Glory is a taut, morally complex novel set against the brutal backdrop of religious persecution in 1930s Mexico. It chronicles the desperate flight of an unnamed whisky priest — a flawed, guilt-ridden man who is nonetheless the last Catholic clergyman remaining in a state that has outlawed the Church. Pursued relentlessly by a fanatical police lieutenant who represents the cold certainty of a godless ideology, the priest moves through poverty-stricken villages, administering sacraments and confronting his own profound unworthiness. Greene constructs a gripping cat-and-mouse thriller that simultaneously argues one of literature's most enduring paradoxes: that grace and salvation can operate through the most broken of human vessels. Written with spare, haunting precision, the novel stands as a definitive meditation on sin, redemption, and the indestructible nature of faith.
