![]() ![]() That is, until the private detective steals Sarah’s journal for Bendrix. All clues point toward a new relationship, though the identity of this other lover remains indiscernible. He hires a private detective, follows her, even befriends her husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, until Sarah finds another lover.Īfter Sarah ends the affair following a rash promise, Bendrix goes almost mad in obsessively tracking down the other man he knows must exist. In his retelling, they fall into sex almost accidentally but then proceed to cling to each other desperately for some sort of consolation in what Bendrix calls “the desert” of experience, the dry, lonely wastes of life. Set in World War II era London, Bendrix’s tale paints the history of his affair with a married woman who lives across the square: Sarah Miles. Though relatively short, the first half of the story seems to drag, mostly because it is related to the reader by an entirely unlikeable first person narrator: heart-broken, hatred-filled novelist Maurice Bendrix. Graham Greene: An Affair With Christianityīritish novelist Graham Greene’s fourth major novel, titled The End of the Affair, does not immediately capture the reader’s attention. ![]()
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