"In Joseph Anton many of these themes are skilfully and seamlessly interwoven, but perhaps the moments that stand out for their startling candour and clarity are ones of a person reduced to becoming a banal non-person, the unhinged days and months interminably stretching into years in hiding." - Sunil Sethi, Business Standard.Joseph Anton shows both the resolve with which Rushdie confronted the threats to his life, and the sad degree to which the unhinged words of a demented ayatollah helped ruin a superb writer." - Isaac Chotiner, The Atlantic "Rushdie has become a New York socialite obsessed with name-dropping every celebrity he meets, lauding his own work with shameless abandon, and pointlessly denigrating his ex-wives.Generally quite positive - though many complaints about length and gossipiness General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī+ : problematic, but with fascinating parts and quite well written - but also way too long-winded Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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