Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter
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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. The Barnes & Noble Review With the graciousness that no doubt earned her the Sunday Independent headline, "He's grumpy, she smoothes things over," Fraser captures Pinter's sometimes "savage melancholy," his often inflammatory outspokenness, and their remarkably productive lives, filled with work, political activism, family, and many famous acquaintances.
PrefacePart One1 First Night 32 Pleasure and a Good Deal of Pain 203 Reader, We Lived Together 344 Theatre of the World 495 Our Newfoundland 636 Open-Boating 797 A Super Study 978 It Is Here 113Part Two9 Writing Images 12710 Unreasonable but Right? 14711 Moon over Prague 16212 Stage Wife 17513 Marriage - Again 18814 Moonlight and Ashes 20215 France: Celebration 222Part Three16 The Steps Downward 24117 The New Dead 25918 Worst of Times, Best of Times 28019 Fortitude 29820 I'll Miss You So Much 313
