The End of the Affair

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• 'The End of the Affair' by Graham Greene

  I've long wanted to read it -- encouraged by several other bloggers, it must be said -- but it took me a few years to get my act together. I don't know why I waited so long. The End of the Affair is a dark but ultimately compelling tale about one man ... (read full critics)

  readingmatters published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene - Review by Waterstone's Books Quarterly Online

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  I think Graham Greene has been one of the most pleasant discoveries of my reader's life.
  I was drawn to his books thanks to the Neil Jordan's film "The end of the affair". I loved the movie and thought that such a beautiful story did have to belong to a good writer.
  I was not disappointed, ... (continue)

  I think Graham Greene has been one of the most pleasant discoveries of my reader's life.
  I was drawn to his books thanks to the Neil Jordan's film "The end of the affair". I loved the movie and thought that such a beautiful story did have to belong to a good writer.
  I was not disappointed, for Graham Greene is a great author, he makes you cry (and a lot) in books like The end of the affair, and he makes you laugh out loud as well in books like Travels with my aunt.
  As for The end of the affair, you can't but love every sad bit of it.

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  Miss Piggott said on Aug 2, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  What could echo with the book the best, besides the love song by Pet Shop Boys "Love is a Catastrophe"? Two torn souls, tortured by their intense love, eventually be seperated forever. This book is an exploration on the nature of "love" - is it about jealousy or sacrifice? And in between, as the si ... (continue)

  What could echo with the book the best, besides the love song by Pet Shop Boys "Love is a Catastrophe"? Two torn souls, tortured by their intense love, eventually be seperated forever. This book is an exploration on the nature of "love" - is it about jealousy or sacrifice? And in between, as the signature of Graham Greene, there is always a religious touch.

  Love... it can lead you to both redemption and perdition.

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  張小張・Cons said on Dec 19, 2006 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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  Probably read in a moment in which the novel's atmosphere doesn't really suit my spirit!
  Re-reading needed!
  The story of an affair that ends without the end of love. Hate (how many times do the words hate/hatred appear?) entangled with love, passion and fury, despair and revenge for all is ... (continue)

  Probably read in a moment in which the novel's atmosphere doesn't really suit my spirit!
  Re-reading needed!
  The story of an affair that ends without the end of love. Hate (how many times do the words hate/hatred appear?) entangled with love, passion and fury, despair and revenge for all is now(seems, maybe?) lost.
  Fog, mist, some kind of sticky rain, this grey sky (or at least, I imagined it grey) hanging over the characters are the weather's response to narrator's feelings.
  And this sort of oppressive air is at the same time hiding and revealing things and people: a detective inquiring, spying, throwing dust and rummaging through waste-paper bins, a jealous ex-lover craving for his report, and at the same time disgusted by this intruding activity; a husband who knows and ignore, and in the end needs his wife's lover to carry on his own life; a mother and a secret baptism, a woman and her vow never admitted nor explained (why?)...
  Above all the presence of God. A strange, mysterious, obscure and dumb God, whose existence is questioned every page, becoming in fact an oppressive presence on people's lives.
  Very little tenderness, for a love affair, and a constant question: "Do I love you, even tough I hate you? Or maybe just because I hate you?"
  And if I hate you, does it mean that I believe in You? Am I loving you through my hate?
  A bit too wearying for me, at the moment!

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  fughetta said on Oct 25, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The End was just the beginning

  I was quite bewildered by the positive reviews - am I too shallow to find it shallow? Or did it loathe it because I saw in it when I hate in myself?

  I mean, what kind of a Faith is it if it could be so readily shifted to the opposite extreme, according to the whim of the moment? what kind of an ag ... (continue)

  I was quite bewildered by the positive reviews - am I too shallow to find it shallow? Or did it loathe it because I saw in it when I hate in myself?

  I mean, what kind of a Faith is it if it could be so readily shifted to the opposite extreme, according to the whim of the moment? what kind of an agnostic is Bendrix if he could so readily lend himself to the perspective of a believer, just because he suddenly find himself still desired by whom he thought had rejected him? Is it not a bit all too frivolous?

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  Paul Yeung said on Apr 19, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Superb story of love, anger, devotion and tragedy.

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  sid_rw said on Jul 5, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
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• ISBN-10: 1844407616
• ISBN-13: 9781844407613
• Publisher: Bbc Book Pub
• Pub date: May 31, 2003
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
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