Description
| Product ID: | 9780571202546 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | FF Classics |
| Title: | My Beautiful Laundrette |
| Authors: | Author: Hanif Kureishi |
| Page Count: | 80 |
| Subjects: | Film scripts and screenplays, Film scripts & screenplays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises. |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2000-02-21 |