The End of the Affair

“Remains from first to last an almost faultless display of craftsmanship and a wonderfully assured statement of ideas.” —The New Yorker
 
“The relationship of lover to husband with its crazy mutation of pity, hate, comradeship, jealousy, and contempt is superbly described. . . . The heroine is consistently lovable.” —Evelyn Waugh
 
“An absorbing piece of work, passionately felt and strikingly written.” —The Atlantic Monthly
 
“One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” —William Faulkner
 
“As intense and penetrating and disturbing as an inquisitor’s gaze.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books 
 
“Savage and sad, vulgar and ideal, coarse and refined, and a rather accurate image of an era of cunning and glory, of cowardice and heroism, of belief and unbelief.” —The New York Times

“Oh, how I love [this] book! It’s about ships passing in the night and grave misunderstandings and lost opportunities and time running out. It gets me every time.” —Reese Witherspoon, The New York Times

Praise for Graham Greene
“The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings . . . A master of storytelling.” —V. S. Pritchett, The Times (London)
 
“In a class by himself . . . The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety.” —William Golding
 
“A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy.” —The New York Times
 
“Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations. . . . For experience of a whole century he was the man within.” —Norman Sherry, The Independent
 
“No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene.” —Time
 
“One of the finest writers of any language.” —The Washington Post
 
“A superb storyteller—he had a talent for depicting local colour, a keen sense of the dramatic, an eye for dialogue, and skill in pacing his prose.” —The New York Times
 
“Graham Greene was a profound and experimental stylist.” —Time Out
 
“Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature.” —John le Carré
 
“Greene was a force beyond his books.” —Melvyn Bragg
 
“Greene’s fictional products are to conventional mystery stories what an Alfred Hitchcock exercise in cinematic suspense is to the ordinary Grade B Whodunit.” —Weekly Book Review
 
“Mr. Greene’s extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration . . . moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion.” —The Times (London)
 
“Graham Greene taught us to understand the social and economic cripples in our midst. He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don’t suppose his influence will ever disappear.” —Auberon Waugh, The Independent
 
“A masterly storyteller . . . An enormously popular writer who was also one of the most significant novelists of his time.” —Newsweek