Imaginary Homelands

Salman Rushdie. First American edition. New York: Viking/Penguin, 1991. In an unclipped, Near Fine, dust jacket 05/91. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Other than a small, former book sticker (Strand) on inside cover along with remainder mark on bottom of book. Otherwise. no writing or markings with strong binding, 432 pp. 

Imaginary Homelands is an important record (1981-1991) of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover 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 expressio is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over a ten year period, cover 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.

The author's debut collection of essays. One of Salman Rushdie's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition.