The End of the Affair (G K Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection)

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Summary: An exquisite book of faith and loss
Review: While this novel posesses so many strengths; seamless technical style, vivid characters, perfect sentence by sentence structure, it is the romance that haunts this reader long after the last page is read. Unforgettable.

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Summary: The truth of love, lost and pain.
Review: I've never read a book more than one time. This one is the only exemption. There's no comparable novel about love and pain, which is so true.

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Summary: Beautiful
Review: I needn't say anything more than beautiful. This book touched me on a level that very few have. I often pick it up and read random pages and I am affected the way I was the very first time I read it. I highly recommend this novel it truly is a masterpiece.

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Summary: One of the three great religious novels of the 20th century.
Review: The two others: The Heart of the Matter; The Power and the Glory. Amen

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Summary: beautifully written
Review: I've just began reading this book and I cannot let go. The way he writes about pain and love is so real, we can almost feel it. It gives such a pleasure to read, that lots of times I read over and over the same sentence just for the pleasure of 'feeling' those words. And they stuck deep in my mind. I wish it would last longer to read...

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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: This must be the best book ever written about the subject of love. I allways have it with me in my mind. If I only could recommend one book to a friend would this be the one.

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Summary: Brilliant, Haunting, Provocative...
Review: This is among my favorite Greene novels. Though I agree that this is not his best, it has a passionate voice that I found captivating. Even after I finished it, I found myself thinking about its characters and rereading certain parts. If you want to read a compelling and unforgettable novel, read The End of the Affair. Also, I heard that it is actually being made into a film that should come out around late 1999.

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Summary: There's no better book on the subject of love and loss.
Review: I first read "The End of the Affair" in college, strictly because I had to write a thesis on one of Greene's books and this one was the shortest. In the process of writing the paper I reread it four times and since have read it three. In today's sort of "cynical for the sake of being cynical" world, this book shows the true spirit of romance. Not romance in a loving way. Romance in the grittiest, heartbreaking sense of the word. Is it true that the thing we want most is the thing that we can't have ? To what extent will we go to love ? To prove to ourselves that we love ? who will we hurt ? who will we fight ? Greene tackles all of these questions. He doesn't preach or claim to have all the answers, he just tells a story. Anyone who's read other works by Greene knows what a gift he had for imagery and poingiancy. This novel epitomizes those things and in the midst of deciding who's right and who's wrong, who's innocent and who's guilty, he'll break your heart and make you think about all the reasons why. For anyone who has ever loved and lost, for anyone who has a heart or a sense of forbidden romance.....this is the book for you.

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Summary: It's probably Greene's most moving book.
Review: Greene's controversial novel THE END OF THE AFFAIR is a masterly, deeply felt account of a passionate, illicit love affair set in the Blitz-ravaged London. It is also his most stirring depiction of faith and illumination, of the unpre dictable ways in which the Grace works on sinners. The main virtues of Greene's writing - his understanding of human nature, his compassion for sinners, his seemingly effortless technical mastery - positively shine here.

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Summary: I love Graham Greene
Review: I love Graham Greene. This isn't his best novel, but I'm still giving him 5 stars for this gem. He gives us the history of an affair and a little more, narrated by the two involved. Affecting, well-planned, beautifully written.