An oblique comedy of menace, unsettling, exquisitely wrought and written . . . a complex excursion into the by now familiar Pinter world of mixed reality and fantasy, of human worth and human degradation. New York TimesSet against the decayed elegance of a house in Londons Hampstead Heath, in No Mans Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguityand the comedyintensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no mans land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imaginationa territory which Pinter explores with his characteristic mixture of biting wit, aggression, and anarchic sexuality.
| ISBN: | 9780802192271 |
| Publication date: | 19th December 2013 |
| Author: | Pinter, Harold |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Format: | Ebook |
An oblique comedy of menace, unsettling, exquisitely wrought and written . . . a complex excursion into the by now familiar Pinter world of mixed reality and fantasy, of human worth and human degradation. New York TimesSet against the decayed elegance of a house in Londons Hampstead Heath, in No Mans Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguityand the comedyintensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no mans land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imaginationa territory which Pinter explores with his characteristic mixture of biting wit, aggression, and anarchic sexuality.
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No Man's Land was written by Pinter, Harold and published by Grove Atlantic
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