Mercy of a Rude Stream. Volume I: A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994).
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. First edition. Full morocco, ribbon bookmark in slipcase. Fine. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by Roth.
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Salman Rushdie
birth name: Ahmed Salman Rushdie
born: 6/19/1947
nationality: India
Biography
Anglo-Indian novelist who was condemned to death by leading Iranian Muslim clerics in 1989 for allegedly having blasphemed Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses (1988). His case became the focus of an international controversy. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore