The End of the Affair

"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, of which he is the narrator. And it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous love affair with Sarah Miles - a 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 that passion by retrac-ing its obsessive and tortuous course. By the time he has finished, his hatred for both Sarah and her husband, Henry Miles, has shifted to the God who he…