Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991Granta Books, 1991 - 432 pages Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive--an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. These 75 essays demonstrate Rushdie's range and prophetic vision, as he focuses on his fellow writers, on films, and on the mine-strewn ground of race, politics and religion. |
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... Adelaide Festival's Writers ' Week . I arrived knowing very little about Adelaide : capital of South Australia , close to the Barossa Valley where German migrants established many excellent vineyards , site of one of the most attractive ...
... Adelaide Festival's Writers ' Week . I arrived knowing very little about Adelaide : capital of South Australia , close to the Barossa Valley where German migrants established many excellent vineyards , site of one of the most attractive ...
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... Adelaide's own Barbara Hanrahan had to put up with one well - lubricated gentleman's repeated advice to ' shut up and give someone else a chance . ' No hecklers , however , while Morris West , Australia's best- selling novelist , spoke ...
... Adelaide's own Barbara Hanrahan had to put up with one well - lubricated gentleman's repeated advice to ' shut up and give someone else a chance . ' No hecklers , however , while Morris West , Australia's best- selling novelist , spoke ...
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... Adelaide . Adelaide is the ideal setting for a Stephen King novel , or horror film . You know why those films and books are always set in sleepy , conservative towns ? Because sleepy , conservative towns are where those things happen ...
... Adelaide . Adelaide is the ideal setting for a Stephen King novel , or horror film . You know why those films and books are always set in sleepy , conservative towns ? Because sleepy , conservative towns are where those things happen ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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