{"product_id":"9780571362455-collected-essays","title":"Collected Essays","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1986–2011\u003cbr\u003eA new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection begins in the early 1980s with \u003ci\u003eThe Rainbow Sign\u003c\/i\u003e, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of \u003ci\u003eMy Beautiful Laundrette\u003c\/i\u003e.   It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film:  race, class, sexuality - issues that were provoked by his childhood  and family situation. In the ensuing decades, he has developed  these initial ideas, especially as the issue of Islam's relation to the  West has become one of the burning issues of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKureishi  shows how flexible a form the essay can be - as intellectual as Sontag  or Adam Phillips,  as informal and casual as Max Beerbohm, as cool and  minimalist as Joan Didion, or as provocative as Norman Mailer. As with his fictional work, these essays display Kureishi's ability to capture the temper of the times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39503519318113,"sku":"9780571362455","price":14.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40028187_eae8534e-9008-4a25-b6f0-01297b1d99e2.jpg?v=1771484604","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571362455-collected-essays","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}