The End of the Affair Paperback - 2004
by Graham Greene; Introduction by Michael Gorra
Penguin celebrates the centennial of Graham Greene's birth with commemorativeeditions of his greatest works.
Summary
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead..."
"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Milesa hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God.
Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize.
Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Michael Gorra.
Details
- Title The End of the Affair
- Author Graham Greene; Introduction by Michael Gorra
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2004-08-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780142437988 / 0142437980
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.58 x 0.51 in (21.34 x 14.17 x 1.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects London (England), Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004302399
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Singularly moving and beautiful...the relationship of lover to husband with its crazy mutation of pity, hate, comradeship, jealousy, and contempt is superbly described...the heroine is consistently lovable." —Evelyn Waugh
"An absorbing piece of work, passionately felt and strikingly written." —The Atlantic Monthly
"Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair...all have claims to greatness; they are as intense and penetrating and disturbing as an inquisitor's gaze." —John Updike
"Graham Greene was in class by himself.... He will be read and remembered as the ultimate twentieth-century chronicler of consciousness and anxiety." —William Golding
Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 11/13/2015, Page 65
- Library Journal, 10/15/2004, Page 99
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