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Bliss Street

Bliss Street

by KristinKenway (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.45
Synopsis

From the author of the critically acclaimed PRECIOUS THING and TOO SMALL FOR BASKETBALL comes a vibrant, multi-layered novel: a SHORT CUTS set in Beirut. One Beirut night at the beginning of the new millennium, when the city is hit by yet another power-cut and the sonic booms of Israeli jets echo around the hillsides, Maya Hayek storms out of her house after a heated argument with her mother. Meanwhile a plane from England is forced to make an emergency landing on its way to Dubai and James, recently-fired pop video director and reluctant mobile phone salesman, finds himself stranded in a city that will turn his life upside down. Bliss Street is a colourful, fast-paced and brilliantly plotted novel that illuminated the extraordinary mosaic of modern Lebanon. In this Middle Eastern Short Cuts, a rich Beiruti socialite with a hidden past, a Palestinian refugee in search of her long-lost relatives and the eagle-eyed, gossiping Mrs Jihad collide with the lives of James and Maya. Alongside pop videos, politics, arranged marriages, diamond smuggling, and the huge upheavals of the Israeli military withdrawal they form the backdrop to the passionate love affair that develops between two unlikely individuals.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 21 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 0340792736
ISBN 13: 9780340792735

Media Reviews
- I left Beirut in 1983 for good. Reading Bliss Street made me want to go back. - Ziad Doueiri (Writer/Director of West Beirut) - 'Kenway gives poignancy and passion to the small experiences, the simple pleasures of a man rebuilding a life. This is a moving novel' - Rebecca Ray, author of A CERTAIN AGE, on PRECIOUS THING - 'This immediate and raw novel is full of sharp insights into the problems of school, family and growing up' - Bookseller, on TOO SMALL FOR BASKETBALL - 'An affecting...warm, bittersweet novel, with a haunting, disturbing picture inside' - Independent on Sunday, on TOO SMALL FOR BASKETBALL - 'Properly funny, warm-hearted and intensely painful, Kenway's human storytelling is, at times, reminiscent of John Irving's. And that is some recommendation.' - Mondo, on TOO SMALL FOR BASKETBALL - 'With a quirky and witty first-person narrative, this is as funny as it is disturbing.' - Gay Times, on TOO SMALL FOR BASKETBALL - 'Suspenseful and sussed... a talented new writer' - id
Author Bio
Kris Kenway's work has appeared in 'The Face', 'Dazed and Confused', and the 'Time Out Book of New Writing'. Born in Bristol in 1972, he spent several years working in the film industry in London, before moving to Los Angeles to study screenwriting at UCLA. The critically acclaimed 'Too Small for Basketball was his first novel for Sceptre.