The Dwarfs

by HaroldPinter (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $15.98

  A fascinating work . . . possessing extraordinary power. Masterful. --San Francisco Chronicle

  Brilliant, cranky, and eccentric, and the narrative passages are some of the most thrilling ever written. --Library Journal

  Some of the author's most enduring themes--notably, sexual jealousy and betrayal--are present. . . . The narration shows traces of writers as various as Joyce and Beckett, e.e. cummings and J.P. Donleavy. --The Washington Post

  The Abbott and Costello meet Samuel Beckett dialogue . . . makes you laugh out loud. --The Village Voice

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.45

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $9.30

  Harold Pinter's first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is set in post-war London's East End, a landscape of bomb-sites, and describes the lives of four young Londoners whose energy and humour lift them above the routine austerity of the time.