The Homecoming: [a Play] (Pinter, Harold) - Softcover

Pinter, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802151051 ISBN 13: 9780802151056

Publisher: Grove Press, 1994

Synopsis

In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging but still aggressive patriarch; his younger, ineffectual brother Sam; and two of Max's three sons, neither of whom is married -- Lenny, a small-time pimp, and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode comes the eldest son, Teddy, who, having spent the past six years teaching philosophy in America, is now bringinghis wife, Ruth, home to visit the family she has never met. As the play progresses, the younger brothers make increasingly outrageous passes at their sister-in-law until they are practically making love to her in front of her stunned but strangely aloof husband.

About this title

Book Description:

In The Homecoming - an intense expression of compressed violence that inspired fourty years of critical debate - Harold Pinter explores family relationships, marriage and role-reversals with clarity, humour and wit.

About the Author:

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Légion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802151051
• ISBN 13: 9780802151056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96