num_pages: 160
description: "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 Miles. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves deeper into his emotional outlook, Bendrix's hatred shifts to the God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes to recognize.
language: English
title: The End of the Affair
titlecomplete: The End of the Affair
characters: Richard Smythe, Maurice Bendrix, Henry Miles, Sarah Miles
genres: Audiobook, 20th Century, Religion, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 62753
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Audie Award
category: Audio
publisher: Vintage Classics