{"product_id":"midnights-children-introduction-by-anita-desai-hardcover","title":"Midnight's Children: Introduction by Anita Desai - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnita Desai\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeven books in one hardcover volume from the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e including the full texts of \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The White Album\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Salvador\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Miami\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e After Henry\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Political Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAs featured in the Netflix documentary \u003ci\u003eJoan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e covers the revolutionary politics and the \"contemporary wasteland\" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. \u003ci\u003eSalvador\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. \u003ci\u003eMiami\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In \u003ci\u003eAfter Henry\u003c\/i\u003e Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in \u003ci\u003ePolitical Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e-on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and \"compassionate conservatism,\" among others-show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From\u003c\/i\u003e Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalman Rushdie was born in 1947 and has lived in England since 1961. He is the author of six novels: \u003ci\u003eGrimus, Midnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and the James Tait Black Prize, \u003ci\u003eShame\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, \u003ci\u003eHaroun and the Sea of Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Writers' Guild Award and \u003ci\u003eThe Moor's Last Sigh\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. He has also published a collection of short stories \u003ci\u003eEast, West\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of reportage \u003ci\u003eThe Jaguar Smile\u003c\/i\u003e, a volume of essays \u003ci\u003eImaginary Homelands\u003c\/i\u003e and a work of film criticism \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Ground Beneath Her Feet\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in 1999. Salman Rushdie was awarded Germany's Author of the Year Award for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e in 1989. In 1993, \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e was voted the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same year, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is also Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 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