| Author: | Harold Pinter | ISBN: | 9780802192271 |
| Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. | Publication: | December 19, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Grove Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Harold Pinter |
| ISBN: | 9780802192271 |
| Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Publication: | December 19, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Grove Press |
| Language: | English |
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 Times
Set against the decayed elegance of a house in London’s Hampstead Heath, in No Man’s Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguity-and the comedy-intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man’s land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination-a territory which Pinter explores with his characteristic mixture of biting wit, aggression, and anarchic sexuality.
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 Times
Set against the decayed elegance of a house in London’s Hampstead Heath, in No Man’s Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguity-and the comedy-intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man’s land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination-a territory which Pinter explores with his characteristic mixture of biting wit, aggression, and anarchic sexuality.
