Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 - Rilegato

Rushdie, Salman

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679463348 ISBN 13: 9780679463344

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2002

Riassunto

A collection of nonfiction pieces by the Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight's Children addresses such topics as his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, the 2000 presidential election, the state of the novel, the Muslim faith, life under a fatwa, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Step Across This Line is a moral tonic ... A book about freedom, its glories and its costs.” -- The Globe and Mail

“A beacon of sanity... In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Salman Rushdie champions free thinking and fun.” -- Salon.com

“Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.” -- The New York Times Book Review
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels—Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and Fury—and one work of short stories, East, West. He has also published four previous works of nonfiction: The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz, and Mirrorwork.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0679463348
• ISBN 13: 9780679463344
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 402