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Laura Miller
"The New York Times Book Review"
[Kureishi's] got the master touch when it comes to making us feel we've been thrust into the thick of things....Kureishi's love of the world has always been the heartbeat of his work.
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Love in a Blue Time is a brilliant collection of stories by the bestselling author of The Buddha of Suburbia. This time, Hanif Kureishi's subject is the difficult, serious business of love - and hate. His stories have all the qualities of his novels: they are funny, inventive, bawdy, and aggressively contemporary. The characters that stride out of the pages of Love in a Blue Time, however damaged, deranged or despicable, are united by one thing: they are all creatures of strong desire.
'In this haunting, troubling collection of short stories, Hanif Kureishi has finally embraced the decadence that has lain in wait for him . . . A tense, desolate and consuming collection.' Observer
'The whole collection buzzes with anger and angst.' Time Out
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I very much enjoyed these stories of relationships , racism and alienation. They speak to me of how people really live today, especially in big cities - London particularly, perhaps.
Filled with an unsettling longing, for....love, home, security - yet do we know what these things are, or where to find them: if they even exist.
Written in an easy, conversational style - these stoires are a very enjoyable read, and a good introduction to the work of this important writer.
Filled with an unsettling longing, for....love, home, security - yet do we know what these things are, or where to find them: if they even exist.
Written in an easy, conversational style - these stoires are a very enjoyable read, and a good introduction to the work of this important writer.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was excited and refreshed to read the first(title)story in this collection. It was smart, hip, insightful and moved at a rate that was fun after slogging through a lot of modern "literary" fiction. Unfortunately the later stories in the collection were darker, slower and in the case of "Flies"-too self-consciously symbolic("The Turd" seemed too outrageous to take the symbolism seriously). As a guy in late middle age who has long since left drugged-out, lost friends it was refreshing to relive the hilarity, pain and eventual insanity of that wonderfully self-centered life-without-limits.
8 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read A Hanif Kureishi's novel at university. And I just loved it. I thought the way those book were written suggested a whole universe I could almost touch. There is no way I can describe it better. The words fly like feathers. And things are described without even being said. It is amazing how Hanif Kureishi manages to create a tunnel of emotions in just few lines. All the stories deserve an award for the truth they carry with them.
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Brilliant writing
Kureishi's collection of short stories perfectly captures a confused sense of identity and longing. Excellent
Published on 21 July 2000 by I. Gardiner
Short Stories...Provacative, Bizarre and Humorous
Hanif Kureishi is a wonderful writer with the unique ability to touch on often serious topics as race, class and religion with unabashed humor. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 1998
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