Product Details
Scribner, September 2001
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0743217144
ISBN-13: 9780743217149
Description
Together in one volume -- Hanif Kureishi's highly acclaimed and controversial novel, Intimacy, and, available for the first time, his latest collection of provocative short stories, Midnight All Day.
Jay, the narrator of Intimacy, tells his story on the night he is preparing to leave his lover, Susan, and their two boys. Stripping away all posturing and self-justification, Hanif Kureishi explores the fears and desires that drive a man to leave a woman. Midnight All Day is an astonishing, darkly comic collection of new stories, in which Kureishi confirms his reputation as one of our foremost chroniclers of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters are familiar in the cultural landscape of the nineties: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new.
Molly GouldSan Fancisco Review of BooksHanif Kureishi does time and again that which very few writers of even the highest caliber dare attempt: he writes very funny works about serious topics.
Harper's BazaarKureishi is, simply, a wonderful writer, and Intimacy is a work of dark beauty.
The Village VoiceIntimacy is a short, blunt shock of a novel
-- stark, compelling, and painfully affecting.
Jane MendelsohnThe New York Times Book ReviewKureishi is a fluent, socially observant writer whose sentences move with intelligence and wit.
Hanif Kureishi's Books
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Something to Tell YouSomething to Tell You is an exhilarating novel by one of the most original and celebrated voices in British fiction and film.Read More
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The Black Album with My Son the FanaticTogether for the first time, two of Hanif Kureishi's best and most important stories about the Muslim community in England.Read More
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Gabriel's GiftGabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house by Gabriel's mother, who works nights and sleeps days. Lonely Gabriel...Read More -
LOVE IN A BLUE TIMEThis provocative collection of short stories charts the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of...Read More
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BLACK ALBUMTogether for the first time, two of Hanif Kureishi's best and most important stories about the Muslim community in England.Read More
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My Ear at His HeartFrom the acclaimed novelist Hanif Kureishi, a remarkable memoir about the India-Pakistan divide, a hidden manuscript, and a father and a son.Read More
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