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Something to Tell You (Hardcover)

by Hanif Kureishi (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 345 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (6 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571209777
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571209774
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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'Teeming with unusual characters, acute observations of life in London and insights into the complexities of sex, families and middle age.' --Sunday Telegraph --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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'An entertaining series of glimpses of London's demi-monde, from the late seventies to the present day.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars What's new? - not a lot., 30 May 2008
Sadly this seems to me an oh-too familiar depiction of Kureishi characters, bohemiam intellectuals, disparate deadbeats, immigrant maunderings, and all else in between; throw in some sexual deviancy of the bum variety toking on an ample supply of drugs, a few philosophical qoutes, long-winded expostion that completely loses the reader in terms on interest, and one wonders what really is the point? From the slide of Gabriel's Gift it's hard to see a way back for Kureishi - this from a fan who's read it all, and will probably stop from here on in; or, perhaps, read his old stuff, it'll amount to the same either way. To write well about one's heritage, culture, set in a postmodernist melting pot, one needs more than wowee! strange characters laboriously described via a psychological A-Z of deviancy and psychosis. One needs to be able to write as well as Philip Roth or Saul Bellow; Kureishi will be the first to admit he could and never will live up to either. The question is, what he will live up to if not the same old glories regurgitated.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Sex and high culture, 17 Mar 2008
A great fan of Hanif Kureishi, I found this latest book deeply disappointing. Unbelievable characters, stilted dialogue. In real life the protagonist - Jamal, the psychoanalyst - would be barred from his profession. A mix of high culture and graphic sex, Alan Hollinghurst for straights.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Alright, still..., 27 Nov 2008
By boho "bozo" (traveling...) - See all my reviews
  
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Hanif Kureishi is an author of our life and times - in the main writing fiction - recording popular culture - contemporary living with all its fashions and fads.
He captures the multi-class, multi-cultural multi-lifestyles of folk who inhabit his view of swinging London and cool Britannia.
He writes with a pleasing extravagance as he reels off the mayhem and (mis)adventures of his characters.
In my reading and viewing of him, he always has done and seemingly always will - and I can't see much wrong with that.
I loved `My Beautiful Launderette' `the Buddha of Suburbia' `London Kills Me' and `Venus'.
`Something to Tell You' is a tragic-comic read of eccentric and extreme characters and their lives in the margins of society from the last quarter of the last century on.
The main characters are baby-boomers coming to terms with their failing powers, missed opportunities, failures, regrets - some secrets and some crimes.
Each it seems is struggling with mid to late life crisis and haunted by their individual and collective past.
Personal entanglements and encounters.
To me Kureishi captures the pantomime of the generation - intertwines fact with fiction and twists it into a real, entertaining romp.
Alternative lifestyles amplified.
I love his easy style and enjoy his wit and the aplomb with which he delivers this story.
It makes me smile.
If you can park the author's previous works and your expectations too and read the book for what it is, not what you want it to be - it may even make you smile too.







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