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 |