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Old times

Harold Pinter

197175 pagesabout 1–2 hours
1971
first published
  • 1971Methuen · 75 pages · ENGISBN 9780416186505
  • 1971Grove Press · 75 pages · ENG
  • 1971Grove Press · 82 pages · ENG
  • 1973Grove Press · 75 pages · ENGISBN 9780394177618
  • 1990Faber and Faber · 75 pages · ENGISBN 9780571160815
  • 2004Faber and Faber · 80 pagesISBN 9780571225637
  • Methuen · 75 pages · ENG

Like Pinter's earlier plays. Pinter deals with bare essentials. There are only three characters -- a man named Deeley, his wife, Kate, and Anna, a friend of Kate's whom they have not seen in 20 years. Beneath the surface of their taut, witty conversation lurks suggestions of darkness, until the present is overwhelmed with intimations of some frightening past.

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