Heart of the Matter (Greene) - Book Reviews

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Mr. Greene has wrestled brilliantly with [his themes. He] is a profound moralist with a technique to match his purpose. From first page to last, this record of one man's breakdown...makes its point as a crystal-clear allegory—and as an engrossing novel.... The novel never labors...[as] Mr. Greene's triumph is not that he makes his doomed policeman human but that one sympathizes with this roges and weaklings as well..
William Du Bois - New York Times  (1948)


Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations.... For experience of a whole century he was the man within.
Norman Sherry - Independent  (UK)