A Slight Ache

A Slight Ache

by HaroldPinter (Author)

Synopsis

This volume contains a selection of early works by Harold Pinter. In the title play, everything in Flora's garden is lovely, and would be for Edward too, if it were not for the slight ache in his eyes and the mysterious matchseller at the gate. This edition also includes A Night Out, The Dwarfs and several revue sketches.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 03 Jun 1991

ISBN 10: 057116093X
ISBN 13: 9780571160938
Book Overview: A Slight Ache contains Harold Pinter's play of that name, along with the Nobel Prize-winner's early works A Night Out and The Dwarfs, and several of his revue sketches.

Author Bio
Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and, in the same year, the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry and the Franz Kafka Award (Prague). In 2006 he was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize and, in 2007, the highest French honour, the Legion d'honneur. He died in December 2008.