Item #006713 Imaginary Homelands. Salman Rushdie.

Imaginary Homelands

London: Granta Books, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Near Fine. Item #006713

Full black cloth. 432 pp. Small stain to ffep. Dust jacket bumped to top edges, and 1.5" tear to foot of rear flap (repaired with yellowed tape). Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one's writer's intellectual and perosnal odyssey. The 75 essays collected here, written over the last ten years, covering 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.

Price: $40.00