This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film race, class, sexuality issues that were provoked by his childhood and family situation. In the ensuing decades, he has developed these initial ideas, especially as the issue of Islams relation to the West has become one of the burning issues of the time.Kureishi shows how flexible a form the essay can be as intellectual as Sontag or Adam Phillips, as informal and casual as Max Beerbohm, as cool and minimalist as Joan Didion, or as provocative as Norman Mailer. As with his fictional work, these essays display Kureishis ability to capture the temper of the times.

Binding: Paperback;400 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: DNF; Weight: 446 g; Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 28

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