The Go-Between by Hartley, L. P.

The Go-Between (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322998)

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Format: Paperback
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The Go-Between by Hartley, L. P.

The Go-Between

$17.95
The Go-Between by Hartley, L. P.

The Go-Between

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiece--a richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naivet and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart. This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley's own introduction to the novel.

Author: L. P. Hartley
ISBN-10: 0940322994
ISBN-13: 9780940322998
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2002
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.01w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Atlantic Monthly 06/01/2002 pg. 113
Booklist 05/15/2002 pg. 1581
Booksense '76 Jul/Aug 2002 07/01/2002 pg. 1
By L. P. Hartley
By L. P. Hartley
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L.P. Hartley (1895-1972), the son of the director of a brickworks, attended Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, before setting out on a career as a literary critic and writer of short stories. In 1944 he published his first novel, The Shrimp and the Anemone, the opening volume of the trilogy Eustace and Hilda. In the spring of 1952, Hartley began The Go-Between, a novel strongly rooted in his childhood. By October he had already completed the first draft, and the finished product was published in early 1953. The Go-Between became an immediate critical and popular success and has long been considered Hartley's finest book. His many other novels include Facial Justice, The Hireling, and The Love-Adept.

Colm Tb匤 is the author of six novels, including The Master (a novel based on the life of Henry James) and Brooklyn, and two collections of stories, Mothers and Sons and The Empty Family. He has been a visiting writer at Stanford, the University of Texas at Austin, and Princeton, and is now Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

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