THE END OF THE AFFAIR (Graham Greene) - March 22/07

Though kind of clunkily written, The End of the Affair eventually reveals itself to be a fairly engrossing story. Greene is clearly an atheist, and he spends much of the novel working out his feelings for god through both the central characters. As such, there are a lot of instances of the characters talking directly to god and questioning his existence. It's fairly interesting, but it's the doomed romance that really keeps things interesting (ie the guy becomes increasingly angry with the girl, until he finds out just why she stopped seeing him - quite poignant). *** out of ****