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Synopsis
The subjects of Salman Rushdie's new collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J.M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy. In a central section, 'Messages from the Plague Years', Rushdie focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, presenting texts both personal and political, which show for the first time how it was to live through those days. Rushdie's columns for the New York Times confront current issues - Kashmir, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Islam and the West - as well as lighter topics such as reality TV, sport and sleaze. The book ends with the lectures that give it its tide - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.
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This book is full of so much that is relevant that the very word seems inadequate. "Los Angeles Times"
Sometimes pensive, sometimes marvelously funny, always lucid essays, reviews, and occasional pieces by the renowned Anglo-Indian novelist. "Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
The essays crackle with [Rushdie s] enthusiasm, humor, and intelligence. "The Miami Herald"
Every reader will find at least one essay in this collection that will bring anger and one that will cause audible laughter and that is what makes Rushdie such an intelligent critic and thought-provoking writer. "Rocky Mountain News"
Step Across This Line . . . became my favorite reading this summer. . . . [Rushdie s essays] mostly celebrate the blurriness of our characters, whether national, religious, or personal, often taking a smudge stick to such boundaries. Mary Karr, author of "Cherry" and "The Liars Club"
[Rushdie s] turns and words are frequently exhilarating. There is . . . lilting pleasure in the collection. "The New York Times Book Review""
"This book is full of so much that is 'relevant' that the very word seems inadequate." --Los Angeles Times
About the Author
Salman Rushdie's non-fiction writing is incisive, committed, angry, and often very funny. Rushdie's first book of essays, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature and culture in the 1980s. Step Across This Line does the same, and more, for the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0224061607
- ISBN 13 9780224061605
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages464
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Hardback. Condition: Good. For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. --from Part IV With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. 'Step Across This Line' concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie's fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit--about soccer, 'The Wizard of Oz,' and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie's words, a 'wake-up call' about the way we live, and think, now. DJ; Heavy. 352 pages. Seller Inventory # 1570689
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. --from Part IV With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. 'Step Across This Line' concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie's fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit--about soccer, 'The Wizard of Oz,' and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie's words, a 'wake-up call' about the way we live, and think, now. Heavy; DJ. Review copy stamp on title page. 352 pages. Seller Inventory # 1225301
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STEP ACROSS THIS LINE. COLLECTED NON-FICTION 1992-2002.
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