Tep Across this Line: Collected nonfiction 1992-2002. - Salman Rushdie
collected nonfiction 1992-2002
KORTE INHOUD
To cross a frontier is to be transformed....The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we can’t avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the world’s harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontier’s windowless halls, we see things as they are.
In Salman Rushdie’s latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to “step across this line” with him.
The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer’s psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, amo...
In Salman Rushdie’s latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to “step across this line” with him.
The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer’s psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, amo...
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2002 Uitgever: Random House 399 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0679463348 ISBN-13: 9780679463344Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2nd printing. Boards with dustwrapper, 399 pp., small stains on dustwrapper, light wear on corner, otherwise very good condition.. [Auteur: Rushdie, Salman] [Uitgever: Random House: New York, 2002] [Titel: Step Across this Line: Collected nonfiction 1992-2002]
