Bookplate to front free endpaper dated 21 April, 1989 small bruise to lower outer corner of front cover else fine. Issue for Canada in the Canadian dust jacket. And as a matter of politics and religion, this novel embodies the unique ideological power of art: to push beyond what's possible, to say what would be too costly for actors in another arena to speak aloud, to expand the audience's sense of what the world can be.Hardcover. a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.' -The Guardian -The Times (London) 'In pure aesthetic terms, 'The Satanic Verses' is a delight: funny, broadly erudite and wrenchingly gorgeous.

In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.' - Newsday 'Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary. 'Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.' - The New York Times Book Review '.a surreal hallucinatory feast.' - Kirkus Reviews '.a splendid feast.' - Publishers Weekly ' torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb.' - The Times (London) a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.' - The Guardian (London) 'A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, memories, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles, and jokes. Praise for The Satanic Verses 'Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil.

Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.'- Newsday Winner of the Whitbread Prize One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's best-known and most galvanizing book. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ' torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions.

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