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 The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene
 The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene ... cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.Newest Review: ... the surface. When Arthur visits a fortune teller, she tells him to go to the cake stall and give the weight of the cake as ... more ... 4lb 8½oz. He does, and wins it despite that being a ridiculously heavy guess. Next thing you know, everyone is trying to get that cake off him, even to the extent of trying to kill him... Determined to find out what's going on, Rowe hires a private enquiry agent - echoing another classic Greene novel, The End of the Affair. I see these two novels as companion pieces, siblings even. The End of the Affair being the romantic sister, and The Ministry of Fear, a thriller from the same background (wartime London), as the...more |
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The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene: Guess the weight of the cake... (675 words)
by pje - written on 11/01/02 (Very useful, 194 readings)
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I know I'm reading a novel from the first half of the Twentieth Century when the central character lives in a boarding house with a landlady. There was Gordon Comstock in Keep The Aspidistra Flying, Joe Lampton in Room At The Top, Sherlock Holmes ...and many, many more, no doubt. Arthur Rowe's rented room is in a partially bombed out street in London circa 1943 (when this novel was published). One Sunday afternoon Arthur comes across a church fête, which brings back happy childhood memories. But the brilliance of Greene is the way he surrounds the reader with intrigue so quickly. His descriptions of ordinary people and places are tinged ...
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