Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticicsm 1981-1991
By Salman Rushdie
Read by John Curless
Unabridged
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3 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781664452923
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ISBN: 9781664560758
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ISBN: 9781664721807
| Runtime: | 17.41 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Salman Rushdie's "Imaginary Homelands" is an important record of one writer's intellectual and personal oddyssey. 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 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. For this paperback edition the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.Author
Author Bio: Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is the author of a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and fourteen novels, including Midnight's Children, which won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker. He has also published four works of nonfiction and coedited two anthologies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, he was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.
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| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Runtime: | 17.41 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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