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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
September 1, 2002
Pages
402
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679463344
ISBN-10
0679463348
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.55 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$25.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
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.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: To cross a frontier is to be transformed....The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we canât avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the worldâs harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontierâs windowless halls, we see things as they are.
In Salman Rushdieâs latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to âstep across this lineâ 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 Rushdieâs intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writerâs 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, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous âStep Across This Line,â a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.
Rushdieâs first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for 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.
In Salman Rushdieâs latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to âstep across this lineâ 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 Rushdieâs intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writerâs 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, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous âStep Across This Line,â a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.
Rushdieâs first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for 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.
Editions
Hardcover
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1 edition from Random House Inc (September 1, 2002)
9780679463344 | details & prices | 402 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $25.95
About: A collection of the author's nonfiction pieces addresses such topics as his fascination with 'The Wizard of Oz,' the 2000 presidential election, the Muslim faith, life under a fatwa, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
About: A collection of the author's nonfiction pieces addresses such topics as his fascination with 'The Wizard of Oz,' the 2000 presidential election, the Muslim faith, life under a fatwa, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Modern Library (September 1, 2003)
9780679783497 | details & prices | 402 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $18.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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