Homecoming - Softcover

Harold Pinter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394172515 ISBN 13: 9780394172514

Publisher: Grove Press, 1967

Synopsis

Teddy arrives home to pay his family a visit with his wife Ruth, who settles into the household as if into a well-known niche. Teddy's brothe's and his father all take it for granted that she is anyone's for the asking - and she is. It is then'suggested that they should set her up in trade, in a little flat in Soho. Calmly Ruth lists the conditions she requires before accepting, barely batting an eyelid as Teddy returns to America.

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: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0394172515
• ISBN 13: 9780394172514
• Binding: Paperback