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The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Graham Greene
from Penguin Classics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A moving love story & a complex view of spirituality
  Maurice Bendrix, a writer in WWII London, becomes obsessed with learning the reason a married woman, Sarah Miles, broke off her love affair with him. She never explained, and he feels there must be another man. When he gets his hands on her diary, he will learn how profoundly Sarah's world changed on the day a bomb struck the building they were occupying, and his own world will be shaken as well.
  This is the last of Graham Greene's overtly Catholic novels, and it is fascinating. Although I found... more info

• All Time Top Ten
  One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Intense, lyrical, true. Perhaps the greatest obsession novel ever written and one of the greatest love stories. At 153 pages, there is nothing superflous or unnecessary.

• If You've Seen The Film
  Be prepared for a completely different story. Oh, the same elements are there: the setting is London during and post World WarII, the characters are basically the same (though there was a merging of the Lancelot and rationalist "preacher" in the film), but the insight and heart of the story are quite distinct. I had seen the film and loved it so my mum (Irish Catholic one at that) bought me the book and it's easy to see why. This is not a love story (or triangle) between people; it's between human nature... more info

• The space between us
  Anyone who has lived in London could place the Common that forms a geographical centrepiece in The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene. It doesn't really matter if it's the particular place one thinks it is, because it's what happens in the houses at or near its periphery that is central to the book. And the relationships between man and woman, between classes, between interests could be anywhere.
  Maurice Bendrix is a resident of the suburban, unfashionable, southern extremity of the open space. He has... more info

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