Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780394172323ISBN:0394172329
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover, minor coverwear overall, pp tanned, but--spine NOT creased, NO stains, tears, writing, in tight and clean book. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 0394172329 light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages good condition//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Edition: 14th
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1968
Description: Fair. As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, owner's inscription, and some dampstaining to the lower edge of the book(affects the lower right corner of most pages and both covers, but does not affect the text). Reading copy only. Two early plays by the recent Nobel Laureate. read more
Description: Published by Grove Press, 1960. Book club edition. Two plays. Drama. (Theater catalog, Fiction catalog DJ has several small tears. Book very good condition. ) read more
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: Grove Press, NY
Date Published: c1968
ISBN-13:9780394172323ISBN:0394172329
Description: Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Covers lt edgeworn, sunned. Contents clean & tight. Later printing. 116 p. ; illus. ; 20 cm. Revised edition, 1981 printing. read more
Description: Trade Paperback. Very Good-/None as Issued. Reprint. Classic British Absurdist drama. Small corner crease, reading crease, and browning pages. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used copy! Black and white illustrated wrappers. 120 unmarked and uncreased historical pages of text and 8 wonderful pages of historic black and white photographs! "In the Birthday Party, a musician who escaped to a dilapidated boarding house becomes the victim of a ritual murder in which everyone----assassins, victim, and observers----implacably plays out ... read more
Edition: 22nd Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1965
ISBN-13:9780394172323ISBN:0394172329
Description: No Illustrations. Very Good. No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. PICTORIAL PAPERBACK COVER IS LIGHTLY FADED WITH LIGHT STAINING, LIGHT SHELFWEAR TO EDGES. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good in Fair jacket. This book is in good condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. There is the ghosting of a square piece of paper or bookmark on the inside of the covers. The dust jacket is in fair condition with bumps, scuffs, chips and tears. read more
"Pinter rocks in his first well-made play, The Birthday Party (1958). Using his brief, telegram-like language, pauses, interrogation, kitchen-sink probs.... he makes us see the menace that attacks at any minute! Your past will haunt you.... your identity is fragmented, truth subsides...! Not an absurdist... but rather...a mirror of our own language, style, microcosm of the world....standing for the Big Fearful world of warring authorities, crushing the innocent!"
"Harold Pinter's style is difficult to pinpoint, and yet is unmistakable. His cleverly written, unwaveringly unsetting plays need time to settle in one's mind, like tea leaves only slowly revealing a fortune, and even then they remain cryptic, full of mysteries. This happens even more so when they are read and not seen, as in performance a director can make a clear choice, while a reader is left with a multitude of possibilities coexisting at any given moment, and, as a number of them will equal validity, they beecome impossible to choose. It's an odd experience.
In addition to having a style that is difficult to describe, the plots also defy summary, twisting each summary into into a simplistic sketch of the actual finished work. The two plays in this volume are defined most easily by their differences. The Birthday Party is a play to grab by the collar and throttle you, a play to make you gasp in horror on the subway. The Room is quieter, vaguer, concerning a greater number of realistically harmless people - easier to read, but taking longer to settle in one's mind.
They're book entirely fascinating, masterpieces of a form without rules, finely chosen notes on a instrument that does not yet exist. Effective and unendingly interesting and neccesary for anyone who plans to make their living in theater."
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