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Original Title: Midnight All Day
ISBN: 0571194567 (ISBN13: 9780571194568)
Edition Language: English
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Midnight all Day Paperback | Pages: 224 pages
Rating: 3.37 | 811 Users | 51 Reviews

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Title:Midnight all Day
Author:Hanif Kureishi
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 224 pages
Published:November 1st 1999 by London : Faber (first published 1999)
Categories:Fiction. Short Stories. European Literature. British Literature. Contemporary

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All the stories in this collection were shit except for the last one called The penis.

A porn star loses his dick one day and runs around town looking for it. It took him till evening when he came upon his dick in a cafe and has a conversation with it in which the dick expresses its desire to go solo. The dick wants to make more serious films and play characters like Hamlet.

The dick says he'll only be prepared to go back under the porn stars management if he is attached to his face where the nose is.

All of a sudden the dick loses consciousnous and the porn star rushes to a cosmetic surgeon to get it reattached to his balls.

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Ratings: 3.37 From 811 Users | 51 Reviews

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Read at Keele, many moons ago. Intimacy wasn't long out so they were going three for two. Reads like a naff imitation of Raymond Carver. I'd say it improves on his earlier collection but, in truth, even that one only stood out because of one story ('My Son, The Fanatic').

Waste of time. Not really anything uplifting in these stories or even characters to be liked. Why was this even published?

I so enjoyed these stories and chomped them up. Hanif Kureishi is the writer I wish I could be. I only wish the stories would have gone on longer!

This was ok. Some short stories struck more of a chord than others but overall I couldn't recommend it.

As Kureshi is well known, I thought I would give this book a try as a sampling of his writing. I find that short stories usually contain the best of a writer's abilities, as they are intense and contain the essence of the characters. To begin with, I was not disappointed. Kureshi is able to distill the essence of emotions and situations into short stories incredibly well. However, two things irritated me, even though I read the whole book. The first is that many of the actual plots are

I've found the short stories in this book to be quite similar and repetitive. The narrative threads are partner betrayals and clandestine love relations. However, the character's considerations and actions are a way too much similar and there are not particular differences within the characters themselves. This could be explained with the author intention to write about his own biographical experience, though, I would have then preferred him to write a single long novel rather than many short

Interesting, I think it's a pity he revolves so obsessively around divorce, affairs, children being involved - the same old material but with slightly different storylines. They say write about what you know, and it's pretty obvious this is what Kureishi does.I must say that I enjoyed 'Intimacy' more, it was more powerful, fierce even. All his work creeps me out a little because I'm wondering at just how much is based on fact, and whether he's trying to get back at his wife/ other people who