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    <body><![CDATA[The End of the Affair was not the book I was expecting. I think I was expecting a book about guilt, but guilt was one emotion conspicuous by its absence given that the story is about a man remembering an intense and life-changing affair with a married woman, Sarah. This absence is even more surprisi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34635274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book of false dichotomies, about a woman who cheated on her husband for many years and habitually evaded the truth, but was always faithful to those she loved and wished their peace above all. The narrator writes that this is a chronicle of hate, but it is unmistakably one of the most powerful lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21058524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished Graham Greene's <em>The End of the Affair</em> last night. It was amazing. I've read 5-6 different Graham Greene books in the past year and I'm constantly amazed at how each book is so completely different from the other. This was heart-breaking and beautiful as well as a great look at theism and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31935206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my second encounter with Greene and it was far more satisfying than <em>The <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16304.Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_Hercule_Poirot_Mysteries_" title="Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie">Orient Express</a></em>. Greene is not doing anything that is stylistically inventive. The narrative is pretty straightforward, but the author (Greene) is intimately aware of human shortcomings and vulnerabilities. On the surface...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/774526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Exquisite.<br/><br/>This book has been on my currently reading shelf for a long time, and here's why: 6 pages in, I realized this read had potential to knock my socks off.  I did not want to be interrupted by telemarketers calling to inform me my car warranty is almost up, the dog barking at whoev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55530826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[داستان (پايان دلبستگي) در شهر لندن سال 1946 مي‌گذرد. در شبي باراني نويسنده‌اي به نام (موريس بندريكس) به صورتي اتفاقي به شوهر معشوقه‌ي سابقش (سارا) كه دو سال پيش (يعني سا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45866800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The End of the Affair by Graham Greene is a fascinatingly internal little book, with strangely cinematic moments peeking through.  (Perhaps I was biased because I read a copy of the book published to coincide with the 1999 Neil Jordan film adaptation so I might have been hyper-aware of those few swe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20467650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned about Graham Green's many literary accomplishments, including his works for children, despite his reputation for being irritated by the noise and messes children make, and, the aggrivation they brought to his life.  Green may not have been the nicest of men, or even a man with great person...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14168921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the wake of the Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal and the outpouring of public outrage over it, I found myself return to re-read Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, a half-autobiographical novel written in the first half of the 20th century about the intersection of love, adultery, and faith.  No do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10371422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Graham Greene, that tortured, drunken Catholic author, delivered this masterwork of melodrama in the post-War years, fictionalizing his wartime affair with a married woman.  &quot;The End of the Affair&quot; follows Greene's alter-ego, Maurice Bendrix, through his affair with Sarah Miles, the wife o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1899488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought that this book was great. I came to it after watching the Neil Jorden film (and of course visualised Sarah as Julianne Moore..mmm), and was in some ways put out because, even though the plots are fundamentally the same, many things are changed (for instance Bendrix being a Spanish Republic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77183840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite what you think this is a story about hate.  At least as much as it is a story about love.<br/><br/>From the very onset, Greene's narrator Maurice Bendrix reflects on the end of an affair.  In an introspective narrative questioning motives, jealousies, actions, and loyalties, Bendrix explor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64452794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We can file this away with Brideshead Revisited under English People Giving Up Good Times For Reasons Unclear Even (Especially) To Themselves. But while all of Waugh's characters, no matter how irritating, were both recognisable and unusual, Greene's Sarah was straightforwardly cliched feminine esse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58785770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was first introduced to Graham Greene as he was mentioned briefly in the Richard Kelly film <em>Donnie Darko</em>. Later, while thrift store shopping, I picked up a copy of <em>The Power and the Glory</em> for a quarter, and read it with relish. I have a habit of making every reasonable effort to read every book by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57737821">more...</a>]]></body>
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