false 15969439 928485 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.91 282 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 3299 3.87 37623 4750 2002 5 0 false Thu Feb 21 00:38:39 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 00:41:39 -0800 2008