{"product_id":"duel-duet-book-graham-greene-9781529946512","title":"Duel Duet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote extraordinary short stories. Here some of the best have been arranged into pairs - to be read as a duel or duet - by novelist and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-two of Greene’s very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise his great novels: innocence and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriter and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li, has arranged the stories into pairs, to be read together in contrast or in harmony – as a duel or a duet. In doing so Li draws out the extraordinary power in Greene’s work, creating an ingenious new perspective on a writer we thought we knew. Unexpected, surprising and wide-ranging, this is the short fiction of one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most adored storytellers, revealing his brilliance as never before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘No twentieth-century writer had a subtler mind for human comparison’ Zadie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature’ John le Carré\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A superb storyteller’ \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the finest writers of any language’ \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of our greatest authors’ \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY YIYUN LI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51631759851793,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51631760048401,"sku":"NGR9781529946512","price":15.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52597900738833,"sku":"NLS9781529946512","price":15.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52939739103505,"sku":"GOR014661481","price":14.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1529946514.jpg?v=1786615512","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/duel-duet-book-graham-greene-9781529946512","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}