A review by gadicohen93
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

2.0

This book became rather laborious when I read it in April. The middle part dragged; I remember I had a very hard time staying engaged on my bus journey to Guadalajara. An Odyssey for our whiskey priest as he lunges from safe house to safe house to crowded jail cell along Mexican backcountry trails, with all the associated disjointedness of such a journey. Perhaps Greene really excels when he can pull a single thread through a first-person narration, a la The Quiet American, because The Power and the Glory felt too detached and even sometimes perplexing whenever the narrator switched between characters. I don't think there was really too much that compelled me. Some scenes, imagery was memorable, but a bit of a disappointment overall.