{"product_id":"9780679783497","title":"Step across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. \u003ci\u003eStep Across This Line\u003c\/i\u003e concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027384090864,"sku":"9780679783497","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679783497_p0.jpg?v=1763609129","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679783497","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}