Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories

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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
ISBN
9780743217149
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0743217144
ISBN-13
9780743217149
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1872944

Product Key Features

Book Title
Intimacy and Midnight All Day : a Novel and Stories
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Hanif. Kureishi
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-041168
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Jane Mendelsohn The New York Times Book Review Kureishi is a fluent, socially observant writer whose sentences move with intelligence and wit., Molly Gould San Fancisco Review of Books Hanif 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., The Village VoiceIntimacyis 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., 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., The Village Voice Intimacy is a short, blunt shock of a novel -- stark, compelling, and painfully affecting.
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Table Of Content
Contents Intimacy Midnight All Day Stranger When We Meet Four Blue Chairs That Was Then Girl Sucking Stones A Meeting, at Last Midhingt All Day The Umbrella Morning in the Bowl of Night The Penis
Synopsis
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 ofIntimacy,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 Dayis 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., 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., Together in one volume--Hanif Kureishi's highly acclaimed and controversial novel, Intimacy, and his 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.
LC Classification Number
PR6061.U68I58 2001

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