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Love in a Blue Time

By: Hanif Kureishi
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 057119222X
ISBN-13: 9780571192229
Released: 06 May 2003
RRP: £7.99
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Brilliant writing - By: I. Gardiner, 21 Jul 2000
Kureishi's collection of short stories perfectly captures a confused sense of identity & longing. Excellent
Just brilliant. A book of emotions. - By: , 09 Jun 2000
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.
Intelligent, entertaining but unevern story collection. - By: , 09 Feb 1999
I was excited & refreshed to read the first(title)story in this collection. It was smart, hip, insightful & 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 & 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 & eventual insanity of that wonderfully self-centered life-without-limits.
Short Stories...Provacative, Bizarre and Humorous - By: , 06 Sep 1998
Hanif Kureishi is a wonderful writer with the unique ability to touch on often serious topics as race, class & religion with unabashed humor. Love in a Blue Time is no exception. His social commentaries are expressed through well-developed characters, ranging from the highly ordinary to the very peculiar. "We are not Jews", "My Son the Fanatic" & "The Tale of the Turd" are arguably the the best short stories in this series & must-reads for fans of this gifted writer.