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John Patrick Shanley on Graham Greene

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Graham Greene's "entertainments," as he called these short books, offer mesmerizing narratives of suspense. They are complicated by Greene's tortured vision of modern life as idealism caught in relativistic quicks. This Gun for Hire and Brighton Rock are especially good.

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