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21%OFFSalman Rushdie - The Wizard of Oz - 9781844575169 - V9781844575169
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The Wizard of Oz

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Description for The Wizard of Oz Paperback. The Wizard of Oz shows that imagination can become reality, that there is no such place like home, or rather that the only home is the one we make for ourselves. This new edition of Rushdie's study is published in the Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by the author. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 80 pages, 20 colour illustrations, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 190 x 5. Weight in Grams: 150. Series: BFI Film Classics. 80 pages, 20 colour illustrations, 16 black & white halftones. The Wizard of Oz shows that imagination can become reality, that there is no such place like home, or rather that the only home is the one we make for ourselves. This new edition of Rushdie's study is published in the Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by the author. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: APFG. Dimension: 137 x 190 x 5. Weight: 150.

The Wizard of Oz 'was my very first literary influence,' writes Salman Rushdie in his

account of the great MGM children's classic. At the age of ten he had written a story, 'Over the Rainbow', about a colourful fantasy world. But for Rushdie The Wizard of Oz

is more than a children's film, and more than a fantasy. It's a story whose driving

force is the inadequacy of adults, in which 'the weakness of grown-ups forces

children to take control of their own destinies'. And Rushdie rejects the conventional

view that its fantasy of escape ... Read more

shows that imagination can become reality, that there is no such place like home,

or rather that the only home is the one we make for ourselves.

Rushdie's brilliant insights into a film more often seen than written about are

rounded off with his typically scintillating short story, 'At the Auction of the Ruby

Slippers,' about the day when Dorothy's red shoes are knocked down to $15,000 at a

sale of MGM props.

In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of

the BFI Film Classics series, Rushdie looks back to the circumstances in which he

wrote the book, when, in the wake of the controversy surrounding The Satanic Verses

and the issue of a fatwa against him, the idea of home and exile held a particular

resonance.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844575169
SKU
V9781844575169
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Salman Rushdie
SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of eleven previous novels Luka and the Fire of Life, Grimus, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, ... Read more

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