Fiction
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party
Graham Greene's 1980 novel is one of his slighter entertainments, in which a wealthy toothpaste magnate humiliates his dinner guests for sport until the dynamic collapses. The title party involves a garden game with explosives, played by people who need the host's money more than they fear losing fingers. The novel is short, bitter, and out of fashion; this only makes it more interesting.Simon & Schuster's edition presents the book in a straightforward hardcover format. Greene wrote it near the end of his life, and the disgust with wealth and piety feels personal. For readers who take their morality tales with a splash of acid, and who find Greene most honest when he is being nasty rather than when he is being pious.
US$5.00
Ships fromPittsburgh, PA
Est. delivery3–5 business days
ConditionAll of our books are sold as reading copies regardless of actual condition because books are meant to be read.
