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Nan A. Talese
November 2010
On Sale: November 2, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 0385532504
EAN: 9780385532501
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser. In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist. In essence, it is a love story and a marvelously insightful account of their years together, beginning with their initial meeting when Fraser was the wife of a member of Parliament and mother of six, and Pinter was married to a distinguished actress. Over the years, they experienced much joy, a shared devotion to their work, crises and laughter, and, in the end, great courage and love as Pinter battled the illness to which he eventually sucΒcumbed on Christmas Eve 2008. Must You Go? is based on Fraserβs recollections and on the diaries she has kept since October 1968. She shares Pinterβs own revelations about his past, as well as observations by his friends. Fraserβs diariesβwritten by a biographer living with a creative artist and observing the process firsthandβalso proΒvide a unique insight into his writing. Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser lived together from August 1975 until his death thirty-three years later. βO! call back yesterday, bid time return,β cries one of the courtiers to Richard II. This is Antonia Fraserβs uniquely compelling way of doing so.
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