Various Voices
Subtitle: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Edition: 1st American ed edition
Publisher: Grove Pr
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780802116437
Subjects: Literary Collections; Pinter, Harold - Plays & Criticism; Literature: Classics; Literary Criticism; Essays; British Isles; Drama texts: from c 1900 -; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The mistake they make, most of them, is to attempt to determine and calculate, with the finest instruments, the source of the wound.
Description: "Harold Pinter's plays include The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Caretaker. They have become seminal works in our literary canon. Pinter has always been reluctant to comment on his work, preferring to let his writing speak for itself. Now, for the first time, Pinter presents his own selections from a prolific body of prose, poetry, and political writings, offering new insight into the man and his literary and dramatic oeuvre." "Various Voices comprises a wealth of material and a multiplicity of forms that demonstrate both Pinter's development as a writer and the stylistic precision he so consistently achieves outside the more familiar context of his plays. Through Various Voices the reader can trace Pinter's evolution, from his youthful explorations into the boundaries of his craft to the seasoned maturity of his later work."--BOOK JACKET.