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Must You Go?: My Life With Harold Pinter (2010)

by Antonia Fraser(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0297859714 (ISBN13: 9780297859710)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

review 1: I smell things while I read this book. Super heated pavement, sand and tropical water, 70’s deodorant, sweat, cigarette smoke, sweet perfumes, aqua net hairspray. And she never talks about smells. But this book is so very much of the 70s without much visual description that I feel like I’m there with my eyes closed. It’s romantic and heart breaking to think of them leaving their partners for each other. I like her turns of phrase like the comment that she “narrowing missed being extinguished by a cricket ball” and the glimpses of the 70’s theatre world and politics. I dream of a globe trotting life like theirs.
review 2: It's an interesting account of the second half of life for two writers who clearly had tremendous love for one another. But someho... morew there is so much missing it's not clear if these are truly diary entries, there is plenty of editing and retrospection. A nice account of the putting on of plays and the going out to dinner and the travelling to New York, Paris, etc. the account of pinters illness and death is very moving, but overall this just wasn't that interesting.... less

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