{"product_id":"intimacy-and-midnight-all-day-a-novel-and-stories-9780743217149","title":"Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories","description":"Together in one volume -- Hanif Kureishi's highly acclaimed and controversial novel, \u003ci\u003eIntimacy, \u003c\/i\u003e and, available for the first time, his latest collection of provocative short stories, \u003ci\u003eMidnight All Day.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jay, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eIntimacy, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMidnight All Day\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKureishi, Hanif:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Hanif Kureishi won the prestigious Whitbread Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha of Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e and was twice nominated for Oscars for best original screenplay (\u003ci\u003eMy Beautiful Laundrette\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVenus, \u003c\/i\u003e which starred Peter O'Toole). In 2010 Kureishi received the prestigious PEN\/Pinter Prize. He lives in London.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491968782610,"sku":"9780743217149","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7ba42081-839b-4a14-a345-48f4e9837a97.jpg?v=1730563567","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/intimacy-and-midnight-all-day-a-novel-and-stories-9780743217149","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}