Harold Pinter

Title: Harold Pinter
Author: Billington, Michael
Price: $29.95

During the past ten years, Harold Pinter has written a new play, three film scripts, sheaves of poems, several sketches and created, with composer James Clarke, a pioneering work for radio, Voices. He has acted on stage, screen and radio, he has appeared on countless political platforms, and his work has been extensively celebrated in festivals at Dublin's Gate Theatre and New York's Lincoln Center. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 2006, the European Theatre Prize. As if this were not enough, he has in the last five years twice come close to death. But he has faced hospitalisation with stoic resilience and his spirit remains as fiercely combative as ever. He wrote in 2005 to Professor Avraham Oz, one of Israel's leading internal opponents of authoritarianism: 'Let's keep fighting.'

Review: \"'An outstandingly good book.' Independent 'I found it virtually unputdownable.' Financial Times\"

Author Biography: Michael Billington has been the Guardian theatre critic since 1971. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and television arts programmes. His previous books are on Peggy Ashcroft, Ken Dodd, Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard.

Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication date: 05/04/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780571234769
Publishing status: OS In-stock BN