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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780812992786
- Book Title
- Joseph Anton : a Memoir
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Religion, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Personal Memoirs, Censorship, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Weight
- 36.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 656 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812992784
ISBN-13
9780812992786
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113335487
Product Key Features
Book Title
Joseph Anton : a Memoir
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Personal Memoirs, Censorship, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
36.9 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-372283
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for Salman Rushdie "Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year." -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "Rushdie's ideas-about society, about culture, about politics-are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. . . . All of Rushdie's synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Everywhere [Rushdie] takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the borders between East and West, love and hate, private lives and the history they make." - Time "Swift in Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire in Candide, Sterne in Tristram Shandy . . . Salman Rushdie, it seems to me, is very much a latter-day member of their company." - The New York Times Book Review "The most original imagination writing today." -Nadine Gordimer, "A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book." --USA Today "Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie's ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism." --The Wall Street Journal "Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written." --The Independent (UK) "A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty." --Le Point (France) "Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie's eye is a camera lens --firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book." -- de Volkskrant (The Netherlands) "One of the best memoirs you may ever read." -- DNA (India) "Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing--at all costs--any curtailment on a writer's freedom." -- The Boston Globe, Praise for Salman Rushdie " Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year." -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "Rushdie's ideas-about society, about culture, about politics-are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. . . . All of Rushdie's synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Everywhere [Rushdie] takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the borders between East and West, love and hate, private lives and the history they make." - Time "Swift in Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire in Candide, Sterne in Tristram Shandy . . . Salman Rushdie, it seems to me, is very much a latter-day member of their company." - The New York Times Book Review "The most original imagination writing today." -Nadine Gordimer From the Hardcover edition., Praise for Joseph Anton " Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Thoughtful and astute . . . This is an important book not only because of what it has to say about a man of principle who, under the threat of violence and death, stood firm for freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but also because of its implications about our times and fanatical religious intolerance in a frighteningly fragile world." - USA Today (4 out of 4 stars) "Compelling, affecting . . . Joseph Anton demonstrates Mr. Rushdie's ability as a stylist and storyteller. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism." - The Wall Street Journal "Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between such moments of accidental hilarity and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing-at all costs-any curtailment on a writer's freedom to say what he or she wants." - The Boston Globe "Gripping."- Los Angeles Times Praise for Salman Rushdie "Rushdie's ideas-about society, about culture, about politics-are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. . . . All of Rushdie's synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Everywhere [Rushdie] takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the borders between East and West, love and hate, private lives and the history they make." - Time "Swift in Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire in Candide, Sterne in Tristram Shandy . . . Salman Rushdie, it seems to me, is very much a latter-day member of their company." - The New York Times Book Review "The most original imagination writing today." -Nadine Gordimer From the Hardcover edition., Praise for Salman Rushdie "Rushdie's ideas-about society, about culture, about politics-are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. . . . All of Rushdie's synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream."- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Everywhere [Rushdie] takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the borders between East and West, love and hate, private lives and the history they make."- Time "Swift in Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire in Candide, Sterne in Tristram Shandy . . . Salman Rushdie, it seems to me, is very much a latter-day member of their company."- The New York Times Book Review "The most original imagination writing today."-Nadine Gordimer, "A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book." -USA Today "Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie's ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism." -The Wall Street Journal "Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written." -The Independent (UK) "A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty." -Le Point (France) "Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie's eye is a camera lens -firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus." -Los Angeles Review of Books "Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book." - de Volkskrant (The Netherlands) "One of the best memoirs you may ever read." - DNA (India) "Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing-at all costs-any curtailment on a writer's freedom." - The Boston Globe From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal
823/.914 B
Synopsis
In 1989, Rushdie received a telephone call from a journalist who told the author that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team., NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle * Newsweek/The Daily Beast * The Seattle Times * The Economist * Kansas City Star * BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa . His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov-- Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom. It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day. Praise for Joseph Anton "A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book." --USA Today "Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie's ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism." --The Wall Street Journal "Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written." --The Independent (UK) "A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty." --Le Point (France) "Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie's eye is a camera lens --firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book." -- de Volkskrant (The Netherlands) "One of the best memoirs you may ever read." -- DNA (India) "Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing--at all costs--any curtailment on a writer's freedom." -- The Boston Globe
LC Classification Number
PR6068.U757Z46 2012
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