Word: greeneland
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Familiar Scenery. Greene's characters follow predestined paths to nowhere, past all the familiar Greeneland scenes: pursuit, betrayal, suicide, failure, adulterous love. Brown is returning to the hotel-emptied of tourists by Papa Doc Duvalier's inhospitable island regime-that he has been unable to sell in the States. Smith, a 1948 U.S. presidential candidate who polled 10,000 votes on the vegetarian ticket, dreams of converting the Haitians to a diet of Yeastrol and Nuttoline. Jones drifts in and out of focus as an ambiguous, flat-footed soldier of fortune so encircled by his enemies that Port...