The End Of The Affair
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the rain-soaked streets of wartime London, a bitter and obsessive writer named Maurice Bendrix resurrects a painful past when a chance encounter with his former lover's husband ignites a relentless, jealousy-fuelled investigation into the mysterious end of their passionate affair. Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1951) chronicles the tortured relationship between Bendrix and the married Sarah Miles, weaving together love, betrayal, and a profound, unsettling crisis of faith that transforms a conventional story of adultery into something far more spiritually complex. Narrated with Bendrix's sharp, self-lacerating voice, the novel unfolds with the taut tension of a psychological thriller, pulling the reader through diary entries and confessions that slowly dismantle every assumption about love and sacrifice. Greene, one of the twentieth century's most gifted literary stylists, constructs a narrative that argues with breathtaking conviction that divine grace and human desire are not opposites but deeply, dangerously entangled. Rooted in his own Catholic conversion and personal experience, this work stands as one of his most autobiographical and emotionally raw achievements, sitting comfortably alongside The Power and the Glory and The Heart of the Matter as a cornerstone of modern British literature. For readers who thought they understood the boundaries between sacred and profane love, Greene's masterpiece promises to leave those certainties in ruins.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, William Heinemann Ltd
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the rain-soaked streets of wartime London, a bitter and obsessive writer named Maurice Bendrix resurrects a painful past when a chance encounter with his former lover's husband ignites a relentless, jealousy-fuelled investigation into the mysterious end of their passionate affair. Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1951) chronicles the tortured relationship between Bendrix and the married Sarah Miles, weaving together love, betrayal, and a profound, unsettling crisis of faith that transforms a conventional story of adultery into something far more spiritually complex. Narrated with Bendrix's sharp, self-lacerating voice, the novel unfolds with the taut tension of a psychological thriller, pulling the reader through diary entries and confessions that slowly dismantle every assumption about love and sacrifice. Greene, one of the twentieth century's most gifted literary stylists, constructs a narrative that argues with breathtaking conviction that divine grace and human desire are not opposites but deeply, dangerously entangled. Rooted in his own Catholic conversion and personal experience, this work stands as one of his most autobiographical and emotionally raw achievements, sitting comfortably alongside The Power and the Glory and The Heart of the Matter as a cornerstone of modern British literature. For readers who thought they understood the boundaries between sacred and profane love, Greene's masterpiece promises to leave those certainties in ruins.