Volume 20, Number 16 · October 18, 1973
A Funny Sort of God
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Honorary Consul
by Graham Greene
Simon & Schuster, 315 pp., $7.95
Collected Stories
by Graham Greene
Viking, 562 pp., $10.00
The story goes that at a certain time—presumably not long after the completion of The End of the Affair (1951)—Mr. Greene told Evelyn Waugh that his next novel would not be 'a Catholic one.' 'That might be a mistake,' Waugh is said to have replied. 'For you to drop God would be rather like Plum Wodehouse dropping Jeeves.' Wodehouse of course never quite dropped Jeeves, or Mr. Greene God. Jeeves got rather less funny and Mr. Greene's God rather more so.
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