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RUSHDIE, SALMAN Ground Beneath Her Feet: First Edition
Henry Holt and Company, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Edition - 1999' stated on copyright page with full number line (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2), $27.50 list price on front dust jacket flap. Dust jacket edge wear, minimal shelf wear. "Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love, death, and rock 'n' roll." CONTENTS: The Keeper of Bees; Melodies and Silences; Legends of Thrace; The Invention of Music; Goat Songs; Disorientations; More Than Love; The Decisive Moment; Membrane; Season of the Witch; Higher Love; Transformer; On Pleasure Island; The Whole Catastrophe; Beneath Her Feet; Vina Divina; Mira on the Wall; Dies Irae.
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