Joseph Anton : [a memoir]
(Book on CD)
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio : Books on Tape, ℗2012.
Format
Book on CD
ISBN
9780449807811, 9780449807835, 0449807819, 0449807835
Physical Desc
22 audio discs (26 hr., 58 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Hawthorne Branch - Adult Audiobook Non-Fiction | CD 823.914 RUS 2012 | Reshelving |
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio : Books on Tape, ℗2012.
Language
English
ISBN
9780449807811, 9780449807835, 0449807819, 0449807835
Notes
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Subtitle from container.
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
Compact discs.
Creation/Production Credits
Director, John Foley.
Participants/Performers
Read by Sam Dastor ; prologue read by the author.
Description
On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names ; then it came to him : Conrad and Chekhov -- Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.--Container.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rushdie, S., & Dastor, S. (2012). Joseph Anton: [a memoir] . Random House Audio : Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rushdie, Salman and Sam. Dastor. 2012. Joseph Anton: [a Memoir]. Random House Audio : Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rushdie, Salman and Sam. Dastor. Joseph Anton: [a Memoir] Random House Audio : Books on Tape, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rushdie, Salman., and Sam Dastor. Joseph Anton: [a Memoir] Random House Audio : Books on Tape, 2012.
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