The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Rilegato

Rushdie, Salman

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ISBN 10: 0676970621 ISBN 13: 9780676970623

Casa editrice: Holt, 1999

Riassunto

An epic romance that stretches across whole lives, and even beyond death, Salman Rushdie's most accessible novel and his boldest imaginative act is also a vivid account of the intimate, flawed encounter between East and West, a remaking of the myth of Orpheus, and an exploration of the extremities of comedy, culture and desire. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a gripping story that encapsulates the history, dreams and passions of the last half century as no other novel has done.
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Recensione:

"Dazzling--a wonderfully imagined and abundant novel about love and rock 'n' roll, about India and the United States, about gods and mortals, and about this crazy world we live in.-- Sheer joy." -M.G. Vassanji, The Globe and Mail

"As absorbing as fiction can be -- and [from] one of our continent's best writers." -Kirkus Reviews

"This is Rushdie at his absolute, almost insolently global best -- his adroit mastery of language serves brilliantly imagined characters and a mesmerizing narrative. Completely seductive." -Toni Morrison

"[An] exuberant and elegiac new novel...his best since Midnight's Children." -The New York Times

"Brilliant...unabashedly ambitious, playful, arch." -The Toronto Star

"From start to finish, this massive novel is in every way major.--The writing is funny, silly, erudite, crude, precise, unbuttoned.--The fabulous and magical mix with the sordid and the profane; [the] plot is invariably advanced by catastrophe -- bizarre deaths and unexplained fires, multiple earthquakes.--Daring-- Extraordinary." -The Montreal Gazette

"Magnificent, monstrously inventive--The most playful of masterpieces." -Mirabella

"Salman Rushdie's new novel is a wonderful storytelling beast that feeds on pop culture, misfit history and the persistence of myth. Rushdie's epic range has never been more impressive. Here is a great novelist operating as a master of metamorphosis -- transforming life, art and language in the subterranean maze of his imagination." -Don DeLillo
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L'autore:

Salman Rushdie is the author of 13 books, most recently East, West Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh. In 1993, his novel Midnight's Children was awarded the "Booker of Bookers." He has received many awards for his writing, including the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature, and he is a Fellow of England's Royal Society of Literature.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Holt
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0676970621
• ISBN 13: 9780676970623
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1