The Power and the Glory

It's hard to imagine that in 1940 this book was controversial, but it was. Catholics condemned the book. Evelyn Waugh and others defended it. Mr. Greene ended up meeting with the pope who told him the book was offensive to Catholics. The popester took 14 years to get around to condemning it. They are a delicate and sensitive bunch who need to get out more. The book is in my opinion some of his best work. He was bipolar and you can tell.

"The buzzard came picking its way across the yard, a dusty and desolate figure: every now and then it lifted sluggishly from the earth and flapped down twenty yards on."

-Graham Greene

These People Are Us

George Singleton write conversationally, fluidly like real life. He writes like the monologue that narrates our memories, simply and without undue adornment. It emphasizes the singular occasions when he gets artful. It leaves his works relying mostly on players and plot.

He said in an interview once that "I am my main characters, for better or worse." Their faults are his faults, their virtues (if there are any) are also his.

"I'd look down at the lake and wonder why our bodies seemed more water then dirt, more dirt than air or fire."

-George Singleton