The End of the Affair
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene’s masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is “undeniably a major work of art” (The New Yorker). Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, develops an acquaintance with Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant named Henry. Maurice claims it’s to divine a character for his novel-in-progress. That’s the first deception. What he really wants is Sarah, and what Sarah needs is a man with passion. So begins a series of reckless trysts doomed by Maurice’s increasing romantic demands and Sarah’s tortured sense of guilt. Then, after Maurice miraculously survives a bombing, Sarah ends the affair—quickly, absolutely, and without explanation. It’s only when Maurice crosses paths with Sarah’s husband that he discovers the fallout of their duplicity—and it’s more unexpected than Maurice, Henry, or Sarah herself could have imagined. Adapted for film in both 1956 and 1999, Greene’s novel of all that inspires love—and all that poisons it—is “singularly moving and beautiful” (Evelyn Waugh).
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Author
Graham Greene
Pages
160
Publisher
Open Road Media
Published Date
2018-03-13
ISBN
1504052471 9781504052474
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"Listened to the audiobook. Colin Firth was a terrific narrator. I knew the book was going to be a tug of war but geeeeeze laweeeeeze .... Some of the dialogue was just too monotonous. I hate that I should love so that if I know love I would hate. I hate myself therefore I love myself so I love to hate myself blah blah blah. Way too much if that for me. But the story itself was a heartbreaker. I’d love to see the play."
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Jacquie Oermann
"Beautiful story. Colin Firth narrator "
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