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

4.0

This is the third Graham Greene novel I've read and it has convinced me that I can pick up any one of his books at any time and have a fantastic read. The plot or his prose is never staggering, but intelligent and descriptive enough to really open up a world of new places or ideas. The theme of this particular novel is open to a lot of interpretation about theology and politics, obviously, but the bits that really stuck with me were some of his more haunting and lonely descriptions of a Mexico stuck in the growing pains and conflicts following revolution. One can almost see Cormac McCarthy having read this and been very influenced by it.