![]() ![]() ![]() This is an insightful story of two professional writers, both fully fledged members of London literati meeting in mid-life and mid-career, engaged professionally and personally as privileged molders of public opinion.īut it is also a very private story of two richly endowed people made even more interesting by their differences. Somewhat surprisingly, we get to know him as a man of humour, vulnerability, self-irony and romance. However, another, much fuller personality emerges from Antonia Fraser’s clear-eyed, effervescent memoir (done in diary form) of her life with Pinter. The name Harold Pinter, renowned British playwright, conjures up notions of austerity and menace that emanate from a general impression that his work typically lurches along precipitous Beckettian pauses over which characters teeter as on the edge of complete annihilation. ![]()
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