Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories

Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and StoriesTogether 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.

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 ne

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 10/01/2001
ISBN: 9780743217149
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.04w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New York Times 09/30/2001 pg. 7
Library Journal 10/15/2001 pg. 108
PW Notes and Reprints 10/22/2001 pg. 49