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The Last Word

Hanif Kureishi

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The Last Word

by Hanif Kureishi
The Last Word - Thryft
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Biographer uncovers literary giant's secrets and scandals.

Recommendation: 1. This book offers a witty take on literature, fame, and legacy through the story of a biographer tasked with capturing the life of a famous author. With sharp humor and candid insight, the book explores the tensions between creativity and ego, success and failure, and the myths we create about artists and their work. This is a great read for anyone who loves literature, biography, or satire.

  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Last Word

by Hanif Kureishi
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ISBN: 9780571277537
Author: Hanif Kureishi
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date of Publication: 2014-02-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 2.93
(rated by 1104 readers)

Description

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.
 

Biographer uncovers literary giant's secrets and scandals.

Recommendation: 1. This book offers a witty take on literature, fame, and legacy through the story of a biographer tasked with capturing the life of a famous author. With sharp humor and candid insight, the book explores the tensions between creativity and ego, success and failure, and the myths we create about artists and their work. This is a great read for anyone who loves literature, biography, or satire.

  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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