Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (First Edition - Unbound Signatures)

Greene, Graham

ISBN 10: 0886190762 / ISBN 13: 9780886190767

Published by Lester & Orpen Dennys, (Toronto), 1984

About this Item

Notation in ink on the first page, the half title page. A curiosity: all seven of the signatures that would, if bound up, make the complete printed portion of the Canadian edition of this book. Printed in Great Britain, with only the title page and copyright page different from the UK edition published by Bodley Head. Author's account of a five-year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-1981. 224 pages.

Seller Inventory # 21257

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (First Edition - Unbound Signatures)
• Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys, (Toronto)
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0886190762
• ISBN 13: 9780886190767
• Binding: Unbound Signatures
• Edition: First Canadian Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine Plus.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir. . . of a man I had grown to love over those five years' GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL is Graham Greene's account of a five-year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu, one of the few men in the National Guard whom the General trusted completely. It is a fascinating tribute to an inspirational politician in the vital period of his country's history, and to an unusual and enduring friendship.

About the Author

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.