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- Shattered : a memoir / by Kureishi, Hanif,author.;
"On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs. He could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London. While confined to a series of hospital wards, he felt compelled to write, but being unable to type or to hold a pen, he began to dictate to family members the words which formed in his head. The result was an extraordinary series of dispatches from his hospital bed -- a diary of a life in pieces, recorded with rare honesty, clarity and courage. This book takes these hospital dispatches -- edited, expanded and meticulously interwoven with new writing -- and charts both a shattering and a reassembling: a new life born of pain and loss, but animated by new feelings -- of gratitude, humility and love"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Kureishi, Hanif.; Authors with disabilities; Authors, English; Bisexual men; Falls (Accidents); Hospital patients; Life change events; Novelists, English; People with quadriplegia; Screenwriters; Spinal cord; Dramatists, English;
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- Le week-end [videorecording] / by Alexander, Olly,1990-; Broadbent, Jim.; Davis, Judith.; Duncan, Lindsay.; Goldblum, Jeff,1952-; Kureishi, Hanif.; Loader, Kevin.; Michell, Roger,1956-; British Film Institute.; Curzon Film World.; FilmFour (Firm); Free Range Films (Firm); Le Bureau (Firm); TVA Films (Firm);
Editor, Kristina Hetherinton ; production designer, Emmanuelle Duplay ; director of photography, Nathalie Durand.Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum, Olly Alexander, Judith Davis.Long-married British couple Nick and Meg are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness, and even deeper regret. An invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan, an amusingly eccentric American academic, soon leads them to a hopeful vision of what their marriage might still become.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (2.35) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.- Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Married people; Romantic comedy films.; Vacations; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2014., Distributed by TVA Films,
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- Venus [videorecording (DVD)] / by Griffiths, Richard,1947; Michell, Roger,1957; O'Toole, Peter,1932; Phillips, Leslie,1924; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937; Whittaker, Jodie; Alliance Atlantis (Firm; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm;
Director of photography, Haris Zambarloukos ; editor, Nicolas Gaster ; music, Corrine Bailey Rae ; costume designer, Natalie Ward ; production designer, John-Paul Kelly.Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Richard Griffiths, Vanessa Redgrave.Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a nightmare for Ian, especially since she is a hard-drinking, rude, and dismissive brat. But Maurice sees something else in the young woman, a potential for humanity which blossoms under his kindness and gentle guidance. For Maurice, something else blossoms as well - romantic love for a girl fifty years younger.DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.- Subjects: Comedy film; Feature film; Man-woman relationships; Video recordings for the hearing impaire;
- © c2007., Miramax Home Entertainment ; Distributed in Canada by Alliance Atlantis,
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