{"product_id":"9781529946512-selected-stories","title":"Duel Duet","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected Stories\u003cbr\u003e\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53526006038902,"sku":"9781529946512","price":17.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34583614_03b5387e-7484-4b84-a163-5b18f23cffc7.jpg?v=1748465636","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529946512-selected-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}