The End of the Affair

Graham Greene 1951

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
love loss literary fiction philosophical

Our Take

Bendrix loves Sarah and hates God for having her first. Greene writes jealousy as theology and faith as the ultimate rival. The affair ends and the love does not, and that is the cruelest thing. A novel where devotion and obsession are the same word.

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