The End Of The Affair

By (author) Greene Graham; Introduction by Ali, Monica
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI

The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI

The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

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Singularly beautiful and moving
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One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody''s language
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In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man''s consciousness and anxiety
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Devastating study of the collision of different kinds of faith, betrayal and commitment
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Greene''s novel of illicit love captures perfectly the atmosphere of rainy wartime London - try to read this in one sitting if you can
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A deliciously uncomfortable read for anyone who''s allowed their heart to rule their head
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Passionate, powerful and complex
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One of our greatest authors - for experience of a whole century he was the man within
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No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene
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Greene’s classic wartime drama The End of the Affair is no less gripping for its simplicity…this unacceptable love, this devastating outcome.
Biographical note:
Graham Greene (Author)
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

Monica Ali (Introducer)
Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She is the author of Untold Story, In The Kitchen and Alentejo Blue. Her Sunday Times bestselling first novel Brick Lane was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the Commonwealth Writers'' Prize and has been made into an acclaimed film. Her latest novel Love Marriage is published by Virago.


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''One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody''s language'' William Faulkner