MixedI have read The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene a few years ago which I thought was fine, , but I've heard such great things about The End of the Affair that I would really like to read it.
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The heart of the matter (1948)
Creators: Mixed Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.
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LovedI don't want to give away the plot, but the denouement of the novel is absolutely brilliant. It's it's a real masterpiece of psychic pain, but it's very bleak.
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Graham GreeneOne of Graham Greene's best works. The story is set at the time of the French war against the Viet Cong and tells the story of liberal British journalist Thomas Fowler, his mistress Phuong, and their relationship with American idealist Pyle. The latter is an earnest young man indocrinated with geo-political theory and whose attempts to shape the world to American ideals ends in his own personal tragedy and drastically alters the lives of the other two participants. Written before the US involvement in Vietnam this is a strangely prophetic work and seriously encapsulates the British viewpoint towards that conflict. A beautifully written book and highly recommended.
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