Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories [Paperback]

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 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.Hanif Kureishi is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is the author of nine novels, includingThe Buddha of Suburbia(winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel),The Black Album, Intimacy,andThe Nothing.He was twice nominated for Oscars for best original screenplay (My Beautiful Laundrette andVenus, which starred Peter O’Toole). In 2010 Kureishi received the prestigious PEN/Pinter Prize. He lives in London.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 PenisMolly 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, andIntimacyis a work of dark beauty.Thl#½