Make Believe: A True Story

Make Believe: A True Story

by Diana Athill (Author), PatrickFrench (Introduction)

Synopsis

In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s. Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and the couple's eventual murder.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 135
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 23 Nov 2004

ISBN 10: 1862077088
ISBN 13: 9781862077089

Author Bio
Dlana Athill was born in 1917. She is the author of Instead of a Letter, After A Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That, Stet and Yesterday Morning, all published by Granta Books. She lives in London.