The Go-Between
About this book
Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country estate where he befriends a local farmer. He soon finds himself acting as an unwitting messenger, carrying letters back and forth between the farmer and the daughter of his host on whom he has a crush.
Subjects
- adolescence
- adolescents
- amnesia
- autobiographical memory
- autobiographical memory -- fiction.
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- country homes
- country life
- courtship
- england
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, romance, general
- gentry
- human relations
- large type books
- love stories
- man-woman relationships
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- memory
- new york times reviewed
- nostalgia
- pastoral fiction
- psychological fiction
- psychology
- reminiscing in old age
- social classes
- social life and customs
- teenage boys