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The last word / Hanif Kureishi.

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ISBN	9780571277537 (pbk.) :
ISBN	0571277535 (pbk.) :
Personal Name	Kureishi, Hanif
Title	The last word / Hanif Kureishi.
Publication Details	London : Faber and Faber, 2014.
Physical Description	286 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary Note	This is the new novel from Hanif Kureishi: an outrageous, clever and very funny story of sex, lies, art and what defines a life. Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste. Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate headlines. Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth altogether. Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but which of them will have the last word? The ensuing struggle for dominance raises issues of love and desire, loyalty and betrayal, and the frailties of age versus the recklessness of youth. Hanif Kureishi has created a tale brimming with youthful exuberance, as hilarious as it is touching, where words have the power to forge a world.
Subject - Topical Term	Humorous fiction
	Authors -- Fiction
	Biographers -- Fiction
	Intergenerational relations -- Fiction
Subject - Genre	Humourous fiction