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

Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679463348 ISBN 13: 9780679463344

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

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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Review

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

"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

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0679463348
• ISBN 13: 9780679463344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402