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Close Reads Podcast

The Power and the Glory: Final Chapters

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Join David, Tim, and Heidi as they discuss the final chapters of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, focusing on whether the priest is a hero and the lieutenant is a villain, characters who have conversions, the saintly characteristics of the whiskey priest, the chiastic structure of the novel, and much more.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I am joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh.

0:09.8

Heidi, Tim, welcome back to the show. How's going?

0:12.9

It's going great, David. Yeah, thanks.

0:15.4

Great, David. Hello, hello.

0:18.1

We are here to discuss, well, if you've been listening, you know what we're here to discuss. We were here to discuss, well, if you've been listening, you know we were here to discuss.

0:24.4

We were here to discuss the end of the power and the glory, a book which has led to some

0:29.4

some complicated responses, shall we say, from readers.

0:36.2

It seems early on, people were unsure what we were putting them through.

0:40.8

Some of them may have even checked out.

0:42.8

But if you checked out, then shame on you, because it turns out you got to read a pretty

0:47.0

good book if you'd have kept going.

0:48.7

And we are here to discuss the end of that book, the last few chapters.

0:52.5

And then next week we will answer your questions.

0:56.3

So if you have questions, you can send them to us. We will post the thread on Facebook,

1:01.3

on the Close Reads Facebook page where you can post your questions about this book. And also,

1:05.1

if you want to email us them, you can also do that. I have created a new email. It's just

1:10.0

close reads, podcasts at gmail. a new email. It's just close reads,

1:16.9

podcasts at gmail.com. So if that's just a good place for all close reads podcast stuff to go to, so if you want to email something there because you are not on Facebook or for

1:21.3

whatever reason, then feel free to do so. And I will include those in the conversation on

1:26.4

next week's episode.

1:33.3

Tim and Heidi, I have a question for you before I get into my real question, though.

1:34.5

Okay.

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