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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 succumbed on Christmas
Eve 2008. Must You Go? is based on Fraser’s recollections and on the
diaries she has kept since October 1968. She shares Pinter’s
own revelations about his past, as well as observations by
his friends. Fraser’s diaries—written by a biographer living
with a creative artist and observing the process
firsthand—also provide a unique insight into his writing. Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser lived together from August
1975 until his death thirty-three years later. “O! call back
yesterday, bid time return,” cries one of the courtiers to
Richard II. This is Antonia Fraser’s uniquely compelling way
of doing so.
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