Make Believe: A True Story
Diana Athill's fascinating analysis of her relationshup with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal whose book, From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me , she edited in the 1960s. Against all odds, they became friends, sometimes lovers.
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Book Information
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
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| Publish Date: | 05/02/2023 |
| Pages: | 160 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781783787449 |
| ISBN-10: | 1783787449 |
| Language: | English |
Full Description
In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s.
Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and Jamal's, and separately Gail's, eventual murders.
