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Title: Too much intimacy?
Review: Kureishi calls this "Intimacy, A Novel" but it is really hard to believe that you aren't reading his most personal thoughts. The narrator is a writer, living in London, who has been nominated for an Academy Award. Kureishi too is all this. He tells of his decision to leave his wife and family for a variety of reasons, but which really all end up with his inability to accept the limitations of a permanent relationship and a family. Most of the time you want to grab him by the lapels and tell him to grow up...but part of the time you know exactly what is going through his mind. Kureishi doesn't pull any punches here, and he reveals more than enough warts on his character for us to dismiss him as nothing more than a selfish lout. But few selfish louts have the skill and courage to bare their souls so completely.
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