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Event name

Book Discussion

When

Mon 10 / 18 / 2021
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Where

TBA
DC 20007

Who can attend

Members only

Limited capacity: Registration Closed

Price

FREE

Organizer

Georgetown Village
The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene

 Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity.
 
When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor—a vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic.