5/11/2023 0 Comments The quiet american book reviewBut Fowler’s motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler’s beautiful Vietnamese mistress. As young Pyle’s well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. “I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused,” Graham Greene’s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous “Quiet American” of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. pilgrim 85 views, 2 likes, 2 loves, 12 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Pilgrim Congregational UCC Bozeman: Welcome to worship friends Service starts at 10am MST. “Written before the escalation of the Vietnam war this novel explores the impossiblity of being neutral in the early days of the Vietnam conflict.” ~RookReading
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