MUST YOU GO?: MY LIFE WITH HAROLD PINTER

Book ID/图书代码： 03540009B32977

English Summary/英文概要： A moving testament to modern literature’s most celebrated marriage: 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 suc-cumbed 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 pro-vide 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： ANTONIA FRASER─諾貝爾文學獎得主品特的遺孀，細述兩人之間長達三十多年的愛情故事

英國傳記作家安弗拉瑟，是已故諾貝爾文學獎得主品特的第二任妻子。《Must You Go》這部回憶錄記錄她和品特在一起的日子。*品特於2008年過世。與許多其他愛情故事一樣，她與品特的故事有開始也有結束，有黎明也有黃昏；但比起許多短暫澎湃的愛情故事，Must you go裡面描述的愛情，充滿餘韻，更為動人。”
弗拉瑟本人是英國著名的傳記作家和歷史學家，蘇菲亞•科波拉執導的《瑪麗皇后》即是根據她的作品改編而成。
據弗拉瑟本人透露，這本回憶錄將根據她的回憶與1968年的日記內容撰寫。
用品特和他朋友的話來說，弗拉瑟會「小心翼翼地區分她和品特的身份」。
弗拉瑟的出版商艾倫•賽門表示：「很多人對他倆的婚姻評頭論足，但他們一直在一起。」「這不完全算是自傳或傳記，這是個婚姻故事，而他們是難以置信的幸福一對。」(RY & KC)

Awards/获奖情况：沃夫森歷史傳記獎(Wolfson Prize for History and Biography)得主、知名歷史學家、擁有多本暢銷歷史著作

Review “This book — full of funny and tender things — satisfies on more than one level. It is an intimate account of the life and habits of a major artist; it is a pencil sketch of British high society in the second half of the 20th century; and it is, more than either of these things, and much more unusually, a wonderfully full description of the deep pleasures and comforts of married love.”---Spectator

“Must You Go? is extraordinary by any standards. Based on the diaries she kept during her 33-year relationship with the dramatist, it is simultaneously a love story, an intimate portrait of a great writer and an exercise in self-revelation.”---The Guardian

“[It] is neither autobiography nor biography but a love story, romantic, poignant and very funny, illuminating her husband’s character and creativity.”---The Times

“Fraser [writes] with exemplary clarity and courage . . . Fraser keeps her gaze steady and her heart open.”---The Independent

“Unremittingly delicious: strange, rarefied, frequently hilarious.”---The Observer

“[Must You Go? is] told from a privileged backstage perspective, and observed with a sharp eye for social and behavioural detail . . . This book works, just as it appears their lives worked, as the most touching and enduring of love stories . . . The ending, brutal and unsentimentally presented yet filled with a Tolstoyan directness of feeling, is almost unbearably moving. The whole of this lovely book fills you with a gratitude that happenstance can, once in a while, not screw up and find the right girl for the right boy.”---Financial Times

About the Author/作者介绍： ANTONIA FRASER is the author of many internation-ally bestselling historical works, including Love and Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola, The Wives of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, and Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. She has received the Wolfson Prize for History, the 2000 Norton Medlicott Medal of Britain’s Historical Association, and the Franco-British Society’s Enid McLeod Literary Prize.
Antonia Fraser，擅长于写历史类的书籍，2002年获由历史学会颁发的诺顿勋章。

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