Two parties: the subject's sixtieth and his wake. Contributors to the former include: Harold Pinter, Jocelyn Herbert, Hugh Kenner, George Devine, the estimable Jack MacGowran; and for the latter: Beckett interviewed by James Knowlson, his biographer, and contributions by J.M. Coetzee, Billie Whitelaw, Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Jessica Tandy and many others; illustrated.