The Homecoming
2nd Edition
Published on 1. June 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-571-33003-4 (ISBN)
Description
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy.
In The Homecoming - an intense expression of compressed violence that inspired forty years of critical debate - Harold Pinter explores family relationships, marriage and role-reversals with clarity, humour and wit.
In The Homecoming - an intense expression of compressed violence that inspired forty years of critical debate - Harold Pinter explores family relationships, marriage and role-reversals with clarity, humour and wit.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 0 to 0 years
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-571-33003-4 (9780571330034)
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Person
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 Legion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.