This novel ends with the protagonist begging God: "I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever."
This novel ends with the protagonist begging God: "I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever." A boy's sudden recovery from appendicitis and the clearing of a strawberry birthmark from a preacher's face are miracles posthumously attributed to a woman in this novel. The protagonist of this novel leaves a funeral with Waverly's girlfriend and hires the detective Alfred Parkis, who recovers a woman's diary. The title event of this novel is precipitated by a (*) V-1 rocket exploding during an air raid in front of an apartment where a couple has just had sex. In this novel, the wife of the civil servant Henry flees from the protagonist into a rainy night, catching the pneumonia that kills her. For 10 points, name this novel in which Sarah Miles breaks off her liaison with Maurice Bendrix, by Graham Greene.
This novel ends with the protagonist begging God: "I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever."
The End of the Affair 