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Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House. [1] Rushdie recounts his time in hiding from ongoing threats to his life . Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued ...
Summary The book opens with protagonist Luka and his father Rashid walking home from Luka's school in the fictional city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay. They pass the Great Rings of Fire circus, where, upon seeing the pitiful state of the animals, Luka yells: "May your animals stop obeying your commands and your rings of fire eat up your ...
Joseph Johnson, the publisher to both Wollstonecraft and Godwin (and through whom the couple met), tried to dissuade the memoirist from including explicit details regarding her life, but he refused. Reception. The book was heavily criticized and Godwin was forced to revise it for a second edition in August of the same year.
The memoir was adapted into a screenplay by Robert Getchell for the 1993 film This Boy's Life, directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Getchell told Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times that he was "surprised" how the book reminded him of emotions he had experienced in his youth; Goldstein reported that Caton-Jones had felt a similar ...
Ian Sample of The Guardian wrote, "Hawking's memoir, My Brief History, is a skip across the surface of the Cambridge cosmologist's life, from his quirky upbringing in London and St Albans to his latest work on the beginning of time and the evolution of the universe. The details are sketched, but the brevity makes for a bold picture.
Now and Then is Joseph Heller 's 1998 memoir. The first half of the memoir focuses on Heller's childhood in Coney Island and is, in fact, as much about the place as it is about the man. Heller describes growing up, his mother and half-siblings in a fundamentally safe and fun neighborhood of punch ball, football, amusement park, and Nathan's ...
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Memoir (McGahern book) Memoirs of a Professional Cad; Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi; The Memorial of Saint Helena; A Mighty Heart; The Mighty Queens of Freeville; Miracles from Heaven; Most of Me; Mr. Pan; Mud, Sweat, and Tears; My Father's Daughter (book) My Heart Is a Drunken Compass; My Own Two Feet; My Squirrel Days