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
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel) in fighting for equality and freedom. About the publication of the novel and the release of the film "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" (1973), directed by Ivan Dixon, Greenlee said: Close collaboration between film director Ivan Dixon and screenplay writer Sam Greenlee realised a cinematic representation that did not lose or lessen the strong social analyses and encouragement to revolution in the novel. The political atmosphere of the United States was especially restless in 1969, the year of publication of "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", because the contentious politics for civil rights, for women's rights, and