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Said's last book is a series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists. London Review of Books What Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives. This book is a fine monument to his life and work Hanif Kureishi Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style Financial Times

Said's last book is a series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists. * London Review of Books * What Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives. This book is a fine monument to his life and work * Hanif Kureishi * Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style * Financial Times *

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Edward Said (1935-2003) was one of the founding voices of postcolonial critical theory the author of Orientalism. A high profile advocate for Palestinian rights, he was also Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA.

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