A woman appears! Is she a temptress? But she's already dead. But even at these times, when I could see Gibreel and Saladin so clearly, the actual actions weren't always comprehensible. The book turned into pure text at these times, a tome of arcane spells and chants - then suddenly the story would burst through again. Scott Hutchins is a former Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. But first I had to figure out the central mystery: which one was Satan? So when I read about Gibreel and Saladin falling from an impossible height I felt bad for them. In the eyes of many of my evangelical neighbors, my family - Roman Catholics - might not have been in active league with the Devil, but were certainly headed to his abode.

A typical Saturday would feature 10 or 12 of these transactions, all duly noted in our ledger: 'Sold Blackmail 50¢, bought Moment of Madness 25¢.' Otherwise, I tended the silence. Our only business was selling Harlequin romances for 50 cents and buying them back for 25. The bookstore appealed to my sense of the greater good - as well as my intellectual vanity.Īnd it wasn't hard work. I was informed I'd be working Saturdays, mostly by myself. So when my stepmother opened our town's first bookstore I was amazed by one book in particular: an infernal red and black volume called The Satanic Verses.Īs was common with my stepmother's many schemes, business and otherwise, I was quickly dragged in for cheap labor. His worshippers - it was honestly believed and confidently proclaimed - lived among us. He possessed otherwise good people's bodies and brought them to sin. He whispered backwards on our rock albums.

In 1980s Arkansas, one concern trumped all others: Satan. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Urn:oclc:67410093 Republisher_date 20121127160940 Republisher_operator Scandate 20121126224208 Scanner overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Satanic Verses Author Salman Rushdie OL457175W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.57 Pages 566 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0812976711 Urn:lcp:satanicverses00rush_ubg:epub:6370fee3-e895-4dcb-b8e6-26edbd52566a Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier satanicverses00rush_ubg Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4bp1cd3n Isbn 0963270702ĩ780963270702 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL22051590M Openlibrary_edition Unclibrariesdonation Edition 1st American pbk. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:30:42 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA161419 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor

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