Gabriel's Gift

By: Hanif Kureishi

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Paperback | 8 October 2002

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224 Pages

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20.32 x 12.07 x 1.27

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Gabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house by Gabriel's mother, who works nights and sleeps days. Lonely Gabriel finds solace in a mysterious connection to his deceased twin, Archie, and in his gift for producing real objects simply by drawing them. Then a chance visit with rock star Lester Jones, his father's former band mate, provides Gabriel with a tool that might help mend his family. All he has to do is figure out how to use it.
Hanif Kureishi portrays Gabriel's naive hope and artistic aspirations with the same insight that he brought to the Anglo-Indian experience in The Buddha of Suburbia and to infidelity in Intimacy. Gabriel's Gift is a tender meditation on failure, talent, and the power of imagination, and offers a humorous portrait of a generation that only started to think about growing up when its children did.

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Matthew Craft The Hartford Courant Smart, sensitive, and brisk...Gabriel's Gift does what many of us are unable to do: It plumbs through the small deceits and cheap antagonisms of everyday family life and emerges open-eyed and smiling.
Stephanie Zacharek Newsday Compact and lovely...Kureishi's love of pop music sings out on every page.
Todd Pruzan The Washington Post A gently charming, comic novel, exhibiting the brilliant dialogue that makes Kureishi's movies so entertaining.

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