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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. vii, [1], 328 pages. Part One: First Night; Pleasure and a Good Deal of Pain; Reader, We Lived Together.; Theatre of the World; Our Newfoundland; Open--Boating; A Super Study; It Is Here; Part Two: Writing Images Unreasonable but Right?; Moon over Prague; Stage Wife; Marriage--Again; Moonlight and Ashes; France: Celebration; Part Three: The Steps Downward; The New Dead; Worst of Times, Best of Times; Fortitude; and I'll Miss You So Much. Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, CH, DBE, FRSL (née Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. 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 ad the 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 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.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. Harold Pinter and Antonia lived together from August 1975 until his death 33 years later. Harold Pinter CH CBE (10 October 1930 - 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. 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. 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. First United States Edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with light bumping at the spinal extremities. Publisher's prospectus laid in.