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''A dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes.''
Sunday Times

''A deeply poignant, raffishly comic, emotion-charged study of the gulf between parents and children and the anguish of approaching death... Beckett, the poet of terminal stages, inevitably comes to mind. What instantly moves one is Pinter''s image of a man confronting death in a spirit of rage, fear and uncertainty... The piss-taking Pinter humour and the undercutting of verbal pretence are all there. But what makes this an extraordinary play is that Pinter both corrals his familiar themes - the subjectiveness of memory, the unknowability of one''s lifelong partner, the gap between the certain present and the uncertain past - and extends his territory. He shows, with unflinching candour, that in an age shorn of systems and beliefs we face death''s dateless date in a state of mortal terror.''
Guardian

''Pinter has written few more fascinating plays.''
T

Moonlight

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    A Paperback / softback by Harold Pinter

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 April 2011
      ISBN-13 9780571276608
      978-0571276608
      ISBN-10 0571276601

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''A dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes.''
      Sunday Times

      ''A deeply poignant, raffishly comic, emotion-charged study of the gulf between parents and children and the anguish of approaching death... Beckett, the poet of terminal stages, inevitably comes to mind. What instantly moves one is Pinter''s image of a man confronting death in a spirit of rage, fear and uncertainty... The piss-taking Pinter humour and the undercutting of verbal pretence are all there. But what makes this an extraordinary play is that Pinter both corrals his familiar themes - the subjectiveness of memory, the unknowability of one''s lifelong partner, the gap between the certain present and the uncertain past - and extends his territory. He shows, with unflinching candour, that in an age shorn of systems and beliefs we face death''s dateless date in a state of mortal terror.''
      Guardian

      ''Pinter has written few more fascinating plays.''
      T

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