Books

April, 1961

In his new novel, A Burnt-Out Case (Viking, $3.95), Graham Greene grapples again with the paradoxes of the Catholic faith and of mundane love which have been at the center of his most memorable earlier works. Here he tells of Querry, a world-acclaimed church architect who, no longer finding meaning or satisfaction either in his vocation or in his eminently successful avocation of love-making, flees civilization. Chance takes him to a Congo leprosery run by an order of Belgian priests and an athe...