Nice Guy
Michael Wood, 14 November 1996
The Life and Work of Harold Pinter
by Michael Billington.
Faber, 414 pp., £20, November 1996,0 571 17103 6 Show More
by Michael Billington.
Faber, 414 pp., £20, November 1996,
“... Pinter’s version of an occasion for whatever other interpretation is on offer, so that John Bayley’s claim that Pinter was ‘crimson with rage’ at a dinner in Oxford can be replaced by the simple truth that Pinter was just having a mild-mannered discussion about Israel. Billington doesn’t ask why ... ”