Buy this book on-line RUSHDIE**, SALMAN: : THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET - A NOVELLONDON.CAPE,1999. ISBN 0224044192.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour
photographic illustrated dw/dj with red/orange+ yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to top+bottom edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - some minimal traces of scoring/indents to front+back panels of dw/dj. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean - ubiquitous uneven ageing/toning to four sections of total present - quality of paper used(?); contents bright,tight and clean,virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-575pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,poetry extract (R.M. Rilke,'Sonnets to Orpheus'),contents list/table,a title separator page,and 6pp blanks at rear.
'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' is Salman Rushdie's boldest imaginative act,a vision
of our shaken,mutating times.It's also a vivid account of the intimate,flawed encounter between East and West,a remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy,high (and low) passion,high (and low) culture.In short: a tale of love,death and rock'n'roll.
Telling the story of a series of affairs gone awry.The novel focuses on the love affair between singers and childhood sweethearts,the rootless and hungry,American-reared Vina Apsara and the volatile genius Ormus Cama,who grew up in a grand,dysfunctional,Bombay family.They grow from gifted children to superstars,and much of the novel is concerned with exploring the fascinations and dangers of the contemporary pop world.Their story is narrated by their childhood friend Rai,a photographer,and the ability that his profession requires to be both inside and outside of an image characterizes both his narrative style and his relationship to the hedonistic lives of the friends he describes. [NB.]
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