The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene • 1940
Devastation Rating
literary fiction philosophical political survival
Our Take
A whisky priest running from a state that has outlawed God — too flawed to be a martyr and too haunted to stop. Greene writes the conflict between grace and failure in a Mexican jungle with uncommon moral seriousness. The ending is desolate and quietly affirming, which is the hardest combination to achieve.
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