Ruchir Joshi (review date 24 April 2003)
SOURCE: Joshi, Ruchir. “Step Inside Rushdie.” Far Eastern Economic Review 166, no. 16 (24 April 2003): 54-5.
[In the following review, Joshi offers a mixed assessment of the essays collected in Step across This Line.]
Is it cruel for an author to have to carry on well after he or she has run out of stories to tell?
In his moving essay on Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie writes: “She hadn't finished. Like Italo Calvino, like Bruce Chatwin, like Raymond Carver, she died at the height of her powers....
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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