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The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

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Nov 04, 07

Read in November, 2007

This has been my second reading of "The Go-Between," my first having been probably some fifteen years ago. I was a little nervous that the book itself might not live up to my memory of it. I needn't have been. It is one of a handful of books that gets a childhood/adolescent point of view spot on. Andre Aciman's "Call Me By Your Name," Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms," Haven Kimmel's "A Girl Named Zippy," Ann Marie McDonald's "The Way the Crow Flies" are other novels that come to mind that seem to capture the innocence, cruelty, and grasping to understand of those years. "The Go-Between" remains firmly ensconced on my list of all-time favorite books.

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Trish I'm reading it now and the painful blindness of our boy is all the more remarkable for having been written by a man in his fifties (was published when Hartley was 58). Such a beauty of a story.


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