Author Summary:
The author of The Go-Between is L.P. Hartley. This is his most well-know piece of writing. Hartley was born December of 1895 and died 76 years later in December 1972. He was a student at Oxford University.
Book Summary:
Leo is a young boy who is going to stay the summer with his friend, Marcus, who he knows from boarding school. Marcus' family is very wealthy. Leo really likes Marcus' older sister, Marian. He is a very naive kid. He helps Marian by delivering messages between Marian and a lower class boy named Ted. Eventually Marian goes on to marry a wealthy man, but Ted's reputation somehow was ruined. Years later Leo visits Marian and she tells him that her brothers and her husband were all killed in World War One.
"Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never go back to
Texas again." - The Final Country (2001)
Author Summary:
James Crumley is the author of this book. He was born in October of 1939 and died in September of 2008. He was educated at the University of Iowa. He wrote novels, short stories, essays, and screenplays.
Book Summary:
This book is about a man named Milo who moves from Montana to Texas and is becoming bored with his life there as a businessman. He has a midlife crisis and becomes a private investigator. He begins his search for a missing girl and gets caught up in a lot of violence with drug dealers and more. The book is action packed with plot twists.
Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never go back to
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