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The End of the Affair
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1951
- Pages
- Pages 230
A novelist's wartime affair with a civil servant's wife ends without explanation the night a bomb nearly kills him. His jealous hunt uncovers a vow she made to God, and after her death he hates the God he barely believes in for winning her.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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