The Shrimp and the Anemone

Name: The Shrimp and the Anemone
Author: L. P. Hartley

by L. P. Hartley

Novel depicting the intense childhood friendship and sibling rivalry between two young friends

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L. P. Hartley

Hartley was a distinguished novelist of memory, class, and the damage done by the past, most famous for The Go-Between's celebrated opening observation about the foreignness of the past. His Eustace and Hilda trilogy is his most sustained achievement.

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The Go-BetweenNovel of a boy's coming of age when he becomes an unwitting messenger between star-crossed lovers
The HirelingNovel exploring class tension between a man and woman in a doomed relationship through a hired driver
Eustace and HildaTrilogy following childhood friends through decades of emotional entanglement and moral complexity
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