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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Containing 74 essays written over the last ten years, this book covers a range of subjects including the literature of the perceived masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries, the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture, film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive—an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. These 75 essays demonstrate Rushdie's range and prophetic vision, as he focuses on his fellow writers, on films, and on the mine-strewn ground of race, politics and religion. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780140140361
Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdies masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.-Michael Foot, ObserverSalman Rushdies Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writers intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects -the literature of the received masters and of Rushdies contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa. Seller Inventory # DADAX0140140360
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