Intimacy
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Intimacy

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Intimacy

About this book

'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.'

Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
eBook ISBN
9780571268061
Year
2010

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. By theĀ SameĀ Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. It is the saddest night
  6. She talks of how her work colleagues have let her down
  7. The boys have fallen asleep
  8. From the beginningĀ 
  9. My young gay friend Ian
  10. Susan has already laid the table
  11. I force myself to eat
  12. This is not my first flight
  13. After we have cleared up
  14. If only I could see her face again
  15. For Aristotle the aim of life is ā€˜successful activityā€™
  16. After a certain age there are only certain people
  17. You sat back in your chair
  18. The comfortable chairs
  19. What puzzles me more than anything?
  20. One makes mistakes
  21. I like walking to school at lunch-time
  22. I am still standing upright
  23. Fuck it, I will leave everything here
  24. I run my hand down the CDs
  25. Separation wouldnā€™t have occurred
  26. Victor and I were in our favourite bar
  27. Come on. Forward.
  28. My children hunt through their toy boxes
  29. I asked Nina to marry me
  30. You pick up other peopleā€™s feelings
  31. Not only does Susan work until seven
  32. Victorā€™s flat is in a fashionable, bohemian part of town
  33. I turn out the lights and find myself climbing the stairs
  34. How Nina tantalizes
  35. When did the realization really happen?Ā 
  36. I have wavered
  37. For a year Nina visited me every two or three weeks
  38. Could I have done more with Susan?
  39. Susan and I cannot make one another happy
  40. A few weeks before thisĀ 
  41. These days I think often of the couples I know
  42. I know love is dark work
  43. It is beguiling how, in good relationshipsĀ 
  44. I canā€™t have been at my best
  45. After my morning coffee
  46. I shove her a little, roughly
  47. How rarely are we really disillusioned!
  48. I donā€™t want to wonder who Nina is with tonight
  49. How weak the arc of my urine is
  50. I drop Susanā€™s pants into the basket
  51. From the darkness of the hall
  52. When I leave I want her to vanish too
  53. Holding the back of his head with one hand
  54. You could go into the dark
  55. Once, coming home at four
  56. Susan must have been watching me
  57. I liked taking Nina to restaurants
  58. Asif was marking papers
  59. Victor says, ā€˜It was the worst
  60. ā€˜Whatā€™s the matter? Are they sick? Are they awake?ā€™
  61. Lying I donā€™t recommend
  62. Tonight the streets smell of urine
  63. Outside the bar there are dudes in kneeā€“length thick coats
  64. Victor was always kissing Nina
  65. ā€˜I went to a bar for a drink
  66. Having not found Victor in the bar
  67. Susan sits down beside me
  68. What could be more dreadful than daylight?
  69. Without eating, drinking or thinking excessively
  70. I pick up my bag from the centre of the bedroom floor
  71. Victor is sitting at the table in his black dressing gown
  72. We walked together, lost in our own thoughtsĀ 
  73. About the Author
  74. Copyright