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The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel. Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth, with rock music replacing Orpheus's lyre. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references.
Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno. " The Ground Beneath Her Feet " is a song by Irish rock band U2. It appears in the 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel, which was produced by U2 lead vocalist Bono, and the song was included on the film's soundtrack. Author Salman Rushdie is credited as the lyricist, as the words are taken from his 1999 book The Ground ...
Composition. The lyrics of "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" were written by Salman Rushdie, based on his book of the same name.The soundtrack version of the song is a different mix from the one used in the film, which was not released commercially.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) is a riff on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, casting Orpheus and Eurydice as rock stars. The book features many original song lyrics; one was the basis for the U2 song "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Rushdie is credited as the lyricist. Rushdie presenting his 2005 novel Shalimar the Clown
UPDATED with latest: The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after suffering grave injuries at the hand of an assailant who stabbed him multiple times onstage at a literary ...
The Moor's Last Sigh traces four generations of the narrator's family and the ultimate effects upon the narrator. The narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, traces his family's beginnings down through time to his own lifetime. Moraes, who is called "Moor" throughout the book, is an exceptional character, whose physical body ages twice as fast as a normal ...
In Japan, Australia, Ireland and the UK, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (3:44) is a bonus track at the end. Various limited edition copies included a bonus disc with either "Always", "Summer Rain", or "Big Girls are Best". The 7 EP was subsequently released in the US, collecting these B-sides previously unavailable in that region.
0-224-06159-3. OCLC. 47036146. Preceded by. The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Followed by. Shalimar the Clown. Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and all of its tragic flaws.