Intimacy
by Hanif Kureishi
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Jay, the narrator of Hanif Kureishi's third novel, tells his story on the night that he is preparing to leave his lover, Susan, and their two boys. He and Susan live comfortably in London. Each loves the children. Yet Jay, "lost in the middle of [his] life," craves and depends on passion in life, and it is no longer there.
Kureishi strips away all posturing and self-justification to expose the flaws of his own protagonist and the failure of intimacy. Searingly honest, he explores the fears and desires that drive a man to leave a woman.
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Fathers and sons, Fiction, Interpersonal attraction, Man-woman relationships, Men, Midlife crisis, Separation (Psychology), Sexual behavior, Social life and customs, Middle-aged men, Man-woman relationships, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, general, Great britain, fiction, Fathers and sons -- Fiction, Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction, Men -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction, Midlife crisis -- Fiction, Psychological fiction, EnglishPlaces
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Intimacy: a novel ; and, Midnight all day : stories
2001, Scribner Paperback Fiction
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Intimacy: A Novel
March 10, 1999, Scribner
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Description: 118 p. ; 20 cm.
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An unmarried couple's separation is complicated by children. The father is a TV scriptwriter who has been unfaithful, the mother is in publishing and the setting is London. As he narrates their story, the man describes his mixed feelings, torn between the prospect of freedom and the loss of his sons.
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