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Sleep With Me

by Hanif Kureishi · 1999

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Set over the course of a summer weekend in the country, Sleep With Meis a fast-moving, tragicomic satire, exposing the emotionally and sexually chaotic lives of a group of friends.

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'They're all coming apart . . . attacking one another . . . Affairs and heartbreak - most of the people I know. No one knows how to make themselves or anyone else happy. Marriage hardly seems worth the trouble.'

Sleep With Mepremiered at the Royal National Theatre in April 1999.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
friendshipfriendshipMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisruralruralMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 112 pages
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