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Homecoming Paperback – 1 July 2005

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Reissued to commemorate Pinter winning the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature

'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer

'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The Times

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.

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    Faber Plays
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    1 July 2005
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    12.45 x 1.27 x 19.56 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0571160808
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    978-0571160808
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In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging but still aggressive patriarch; his younger, ineffectual brother Sam; and two of Max's three sons, neither of whom is married-Lenny, a small-time pimp, and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode come the eldest son, Teddy, who, having spent the past six years teaching philosophy in America, is now bringing his wife, Ruth, home to visit the family she has never met.

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Harold Pinter was born in East London in 1930. He lives in London and is married to Antonia Fraser. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature; in 1996 he was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre; and in 1997 he was named as the Sunday Times Writer of the Year. In 2002 Harold Pinter was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature. He is the author of numerous plays and screenplays, and has written poetry and fiction. In 2005, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Visit the official website www.haroldpinter.org.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber Plays; 1st edition (1 July 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571160808
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571160808
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.45 x 1.27 x 19.56 cm
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nature girl
5.0 out of 5 stars The book which was used was in good condition.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2020
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I didnt like the book. It was written in play format. I didnt enjoy the story, I didnt finish the book. Someone else could have a totally different opinion. You have to make your own judgment , we are all different.
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julie72
4.0 out of 5 stars belle pièce
Reviewed in France on 10 April 2012
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C'est une belle pièce que j'aurais aimé voir sur une scène. Très bien écrite avec de nombreux mouvements et gestes entre les acteurs, on imagine très bien les échanges entre les comédiens.
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John F. Rooney
5.0 out of 5 stars Pinter and the Theater of the Absurd
Reviewed in the United States on 17 January 2008
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This Harold Pinter play belongs to the theater of the absurd tradition. It does not seek to portray life as it is authentically or realistically but gives us a view of life through a crazed mirror image. It is life seen as an absurd concoction in which desire is realized and the abnormal replaces the normal. The setting is deceiving: a realistic seedy London living room, but the family who dwell therein veer off the track into the world of the absurd.
We get to know a great deal about the pasts of these characters: an old man, his brother Sam, his three grown sons, and the wife of one of the sons. She and her husband are visiting from America where he is a philosophy professor. They have left their three little sons at home. We see a large slice of the ordinary lives of these six people. But people in real life don't act this way, theatergoers say. Of course they don't. Why go to the theater to see the commonplace, the ordinary? Why not see what would happen when libidos take over?
I saw an insightful production of this play on Broadway on January12, 2008. It featured Ian McShane as Max, the nasty father, Raul Esparza as Lenny, the pimp. Eve Best played the enigmatic sexual tease Ruth, and three other fine actors rounded out the cast. The play was full of menace, irony, and shock, but with many bits that drew laughter. The father and his two stay-at-home sons have a low opinion of women, and Ruth certainly reinforces that view. Lenny talks about his violence toward women. Teddy, the philosophy teacher, an ersatz intellectual, acquiesces to his wife staying with the family as a tart stoically and unfeelingly.
The father knows his sons' and his brother's weaknesses, and he cruelly exploits them. Everything seems sinister and threatening. Lenny blows his stack over trivial matters: his brother Teddy has deliberately eaten the cheese sandwich he was saving for himself while Teddy blithely accepts that his wife is deserting him and staying with his family to become a hooker. The trivial becomes earthshaking, and crucial matters become trivial. She does not do what a real person would do, but what a woman might do if she let her deeper, darker nature take over. The father's brother Sam ineffectual and impotent. Early on Max says to Same that he should get married and bring his wife home to live in the family manse so everyone can "enjoy" her.
The readers or the audience squirm in their seats and don't get it. Since this play was written forty-two years ago, the audiences have lost their understanding of the absurdist traditions and have slipped back into their state of undemanding, timid and risk-free theatergoing. Nobel prize winner Pinter blazed new ground for them, and they are right back where they started from.
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jenafk
4.0 out of 5 stars Un real more symbolic as most British plays r.
Reviewed in Canada on 22 February 2022
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Post-war allusions. Title is quite in depth with the work. Reading is triggering and characters act manipulatively or hold selfish/insincere intentions within the text. The dysfunctional relations leave a dark impression expressed through sexual tense interactions within a British family.
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Emily Nelaon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great find
Reviewed in the United States on 21 February 2021
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Bought this book used was in really good condition. Seller probably underrated the book which is good because I was pleasantly surprised when it came in.
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