The Last Word - Brossura

Kureishi, Hanif

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571277543 ISBN 13: 9780571277544

Casa editrice: FABER & FABER, 2014

Riassunto

This is shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.

The brilliantly funny new novel from Hanif Kureishi Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste. Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate headlines. Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth altogether. Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but which of them will have the last word? Hanif Kureishi has created a tale brimming with youthful exuberance, as hilarious as it is touching, where words have the power to forge a world.

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L'autore:

Hanif Kureshi (Londen, 5 december 1954) is een Engelse roman- en toneelschrijver en filmer van gedeeltelijk Pakistaanse afkomst. In zijn werk komen onder andere de thema's ras, nationalisme, immigratie en seksualiteit aan de orde. In 2008 nam The Times Kureishi op in haar lijst met de vijftig grootste Engelstalige schrijvers sinds 1945.

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Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste.
Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate headlines. Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth altogether.
Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but which of them will have the last word?
The ensuing struggle for dominance raises issues of love and desire, loyalty and betrayal, and the frailties of age versus the recklessness of youth.
Hanif Kureishi has created a tale brimming with youthful exuberance, as hilarious as it is touching, where words have the power to forge a world.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: FABER & FABER
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0571277543
• ISBN 13: 9780571277544
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 300