An ageing film-maker crafts a rich fantasy of cuckolding, while railing against the death of liberal Britain The narrator of Hanif Kureishi's short novel is feeling his age. "One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises again," says Waldo, in an arresting first sentence. Our man is a film-maker, though thesedays feature-length pictures are beyond him and he sticks to making shorts. In fact, a lot of things are beyond him: "almost p...
An ageing film-maker crafts a rich fantasy of cuckolding, while railing against the death of liberal Britain The narrator of Hanif Kureishi's short novel is feeling his age. "One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises again," says Waldo, in an arresting first sentence. Our man is a film-maker, though thesedays feature-length pictures are beyond him and he sticks to making shorts. In fact, a lot of things are beyond him: "almost p...
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