{"product_id":"party-time-and-the-new-world-order-9780802133526","title":"Party Time and the New World Order","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Harold Pinter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo plays from the Nobel Prize winner that holds an undisputed place in the front ranks of contemporary playwrights.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese two plays, \u003ci\u003eParty Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New World Order\u003c\/i\u003e, work in chilling tandem, each demonstrating the inevitable brutality that comes with a total conviction of right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eParty Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrifying portrait of the culpable indifference of a privileged class, of the cruelty engendered in its members by political disruption, and of their merciless extinction of dissent. At an elegant cocktail party, a stylish bourgeoisie discusses country clubs and summer homes, while below in the streets a sinister military presence protects them from the unmentionable horrors of poverty, vulgarity, squalor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe New World Order\u003c\/i\u003e, two interrogators harass a man whom they condemn for his questioning of received ideas, and whom we know only as threat to their closed vision of democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47781144395927,"sku":"9780802133526","price":812.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780802133526.webp?v=1778050939","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/party-time-and-the-new-world-order-9780802133526","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}