The Go-Between The Go-Between The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïve schoolboy outsider. In the book’s prologue, Leo Colston chances upon a diary from 1900, the year of his thirteenth birthday, and gradually pieces together a memory that he has suppressed. Under its influence, and from the viewpoint of what he has become by the midpoint of "this hideous century", Leo relives the
The Go-Between (1971 film) not in profit. An enthusiastic John Russell Taylor wrote in "The Times" that, "Up to now, "Accident" was without argument Losey's best film; now in "The Go-Between" it has a serious contender for the title. And everything is achieved by apparently doing the absolute minimum." Charles Champlain in the "Los Angeles Times" wrote after the US premiere in November 1971 that "The Go-Between" was one of the best films of the previous six years. Andrew Sarris in the "Village Voice" labelled it the best film of the year. Writing in 1985, Joanne Klein saw the filmscript "as a major stylistic