title: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
author:  Salman Rushdie 
description: No novelist currently writing in English does so with more energy, intelligence and allusiveness than Rushdie. Nearly every page of <i>The Ground Beneath Her Feet </i>offers something to arrest a devoted reader's attention: puns and wordplays galore . . . and enough literary echoes--of Joyce, Yeats, Frost, Dante, oh hell, of nearly everybody--to keep graduate students on the prowl through these pages for years. <i>Paul Gray, Time</i>
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  Shame
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Salman Rushdie
  
  
  
  
  
  FICTION
  
  
  
  
  
  Grimus
  
  
  
  
  
  Midnight's Children
  
  
  
  
  
  The Satanic Verses
  
  
  
  
  
  Haroun and the Sea of Stories
  
  
  
  
  
  East, West
  
  
  
  
  
  The Moor's Last Sigh
  
  
  The Ground Beneath Her Feet
  
  
  
  
  
  NONFICTION
  
  
  
  
  
  The Jaguar Smile
  
  
  
  
  
  Imaginary Homelands
  
  
  
  
  
  The Wizard of Oz
  
  
  
  
  
  SCREENPLAY
  
  
  
  
  
  Midnight's Children
  
  
  
  
  
  ANTHOLOGY
  
  
  Mirrorwork (co-editor)
  
  
  
  
  
  SALMAN
  
  
  RUSHDIE
  
  
  
  
  
  Shame
  
  
  
  
  
  A NOVEL
  
  
  
  
  
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  SHAME: A NOVEL. Copyright � 1983 by Salman Rushdie. All rights
  
  
  
  
  
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