The Go-Between past that continues to exist in and to control the subconscious … This doubling of consciousness and of narrative voice—the innocent twelve-year-old's emerging from beneath the self-protective sixty-five-year-old's—is one of Hartley's most effective techniques.” Another preoccupation in Tóibín's introduction was how far the story of “The Go-Between” is based on fact, in the wake of Adrian Wright’s biographical study, "Foreign Country: The Life of L. P. Hartley". Although Leo is twelve at the time of the novel – the long, hot summer of 1900 – the five-year-old Hartley remembered that time afterwards as "a Golden Age". When he was about
Never Let Me Go (1953 film) Never Let Me Go (1953 film) Never Let Me Go is a 1953 MGM romantic adventure film starring Clark Gable and Gene Tierney. The picture, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Clarence Brown, was from a screenplay by George Froeschel and Ronald Millar, based on the novel "Came the Dawn" by Roger Bax (a.k.a. Andrew Garve/Paul Winterton/Paul Somers). The supporting cast includes Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn, Belita, Kenneth More, and Theodore Bikel. The movie was shot at MGM's British studios and on location in Cornwall. Moscow based newspaper reporter Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) is in love with Marya (Gene