Dwarfs: A Novel - Hardcover

Pinter, Harold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802113850 ISBN 13: 9780802113856

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Follows the evolving friendship of Len, an amateur mathematician who works at the Euston train station, Mark, an actor, and Virginia and Pete, a young couple struggling to define their relationship

About this title

Review:

"Like a pungent, virile brandy and therefore to be savored carefully and enjoyed thoughtfully ... [The Dwarfs] embodies the characteristics of Pinter's early plays shaped by the spare, chiseled taste of a balanced literary eye."

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 Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0802113850
• ISBN 13: 9780802113856
• Binding: Hardcover