The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter

Name: The Homecoming
Brand: Harold Pinter
SKU: 9780802151056
Rating: 3.68 (9416 reviews)

The Homecoming Book Cover — The Homecoming Cover

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Awards & Recognition

Tony Award

WINNER! 1967 Tony Award for Best Play WINNER! Critics' Award for Best Play of the Year

Synopsis

In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging, crude patriarch, his ineffectual brother Sam and two of Max's three sons, both unmarried- Lenny, a small-time pimp and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer.

Into this sinister abode comes the eldest son Teddy, now a successful professor of philosophy in America.

After six years abroad, Teddy brings his wife Ruth, to meet the family for the first time.

In the style that became a trademark, Pinter creates mounting tension, with insidiously bizarre accusations and proposals by the men to Ruth, The Homecoming gives way to an ominous game of cat and mice.

Press Reviews

"Bizarre, ominous and taunting...A steadily absorbing, tantalizing and disturbing theatrical adventure. Enthralling."
— New York Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Lenny a man in his early thirties, Max's son.	male	—	a man in his early thirties, Max's son.
Sam a man of sixty-three, Max's brother.	male	—	a man of sixty-three, Max's brother.
Joey a man in his middle twenties, Max's son.	male	—	a man in his middle twenties, Max's son.
Teddy a man in his middle thirties, Max's son.	male	—	a man in his middle thirties, Max's son.
Ruth a woman in her early thirties, Teddy's wife.	female	—	a woman in her early thirties, Teddy's wife.
Max a man of seventy.	—	—	a man of seventy.