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Make believe : [a true story] / Diana Athill ; [with an introduction by Patrick French].

by Athill, Diana.

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Jamal, Hakim A., 1931-1973.

Athill, Diana -- Friends and associates.

Athill, Diana -- Relations with men.

Political activists, Black -- Biography.

9781847086327 (pbk.)

1847086322 (pbk.)

xv, 135 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: London : Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.

"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 the couple's eventual murder."--From publisher.

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