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| Original Title: | The Go-Between |
| ISBN: | 0940322994 (ISBN13: 9780940322998) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Leo Colston, Marcus Maudsley, Marian Maudsley, Ted Burgess, Hugh Trimingham, Denys Maudsley |
| Setting: | Norfolk, England,1900 |
| Literary Awards: | W.H. Heinemann Award (1954) |
L.P. Hartley
Paperback | Pages: 326 pages Rating: 3.96 | 7932 Users | 660 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Go-Between |
| Author | : | L.P. Hartley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 326 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by New York Review of Books (first published 1953) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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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, naiveté 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.Rating Based On Books The Go-Between
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This is one of the most perfect novels ever written. It has many layers and levels, thanks to its brilliant narrative structure of an old man recollecting a tragic love story he witnessed in intense close up as a young boy. It is a rare case of a complex narrative structure actually being necessary for the proper exposition of the plot. For the story is not just about what happened when the narrator was a boy, but how it changed his life as a man and how, towards the end of his life, writingThe go-between by L.P.Hartley, one of my favourite novels, is in my mind inseparably connected with the movie directed by Joseph Losey. Every time Im thinking of it I hear great music motif performed by Michel Legrand. Having watched lately the recent adaptation of that classic I felt strong need to read it again to know how I would feel about it today. In the summer of 1900 just under 13 years old Leo Colston, imaginative and sensitive boy receives an invitation to spend part of holidays with
This book has shot into my top ten of all time. Why this has drifted out of fashion I don't know, most people will know the opening line, many judging by other reviews on here know the movie too but the book... Oh my, the book...The mood is one of melancholy as a man in his 60's looks back on the summer of 1900, the summer of his 13th birthday. Leo is staying at a Norfolk country house with his school friend Marcus and Marcus' family.Essentially it is a story of a life wasted and the reasons why
There is, of course, the great opening line: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. And there is the magnificent cover, with just the perfect adolescent male face; even the green color is important, it turns out. There is also the very useful, if unfortunately positioned 'Author's Introduction'. Hartley quickly and explicitly expresses his debt to Proust and posits that an author, though wedded to the present, writes better when reflecting on the past, where impressions
Hartley has taken my breath away with the sweep of his story and the majesty of his writing. This book was published when he was fifty-eight, in 1953, and evokes England before the wars "quickly, simply, effortlessly" (TóibÃn, Intro p. x). Hartley, in an interview, wrote:I wanted to evoke the feeling of that summer [in 1900], the long stretch of fine weather, and also the confidence in life, the belief that all's well with the world, which everyone seemed to enjoy before the First World
I was in Vienna on holiday last week, browsing for German reads or translations from languages other than English. Out of nowhere one of the employees slipped this book onto my pile. This publisher only releases books that have moved the owner. I saw it was a translation from English, but shrugged and bought it nonetheless. Im finished now and I want to lie down in bed, bawl my eyes out and never read a book again because nothing will ever make me feel this way again. The past is a foreign
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