The Go-Between

"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 03/31/2002
ISBN: 9780940322998
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.01w x 0.89d

Review Citations: Atlantic Monthly 06/01/2002 pg. 113
Booklist 05/15/2002 pg. 1581
Booksense '76 Jul/Aug 2002 07/01/2002 pg. 1