Make Believe: A True Story

By Diana Athill

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783787449
• ISBN13: 9781783787449
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"