TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kureishi,Hanif
AU  - Kureishi,Hanif
TI  - Intimacy: a novel ; and, Midnight all day : stories 
SN  - 0743217144 :
AV  - PR6061.U68 I58 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner Paperback Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Separation (Psychology)
KW  - Midlife crisis
KW  - Men
KW  - Estranged families
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Collection
KW  - ssi
KW  - Domestic
KW  - Psychological
N1  - Intimacy -- Midnight All Day -- Strangers When We Meet -- Four Blue Chairs -- That Was Then -- Girl -- Sucking Stones -- A Meeting, at Last -- Midnight All Day -- The Umbrella -- Morning in the Bowl of Night -- The Penis
N2  - 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
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