TY - BOOK AU - Rushdie,Salman TI - The satanic verses SN - 9780670825370 (hardcover) AV - PR9499.3.R8 S28 1989 U1 - 823/.914 20 PY - 1989/// CY - New York, New York PB - Viking KW - Survival KW - Fiction KW - East Indians KW - fast KW - England KW - sears KW - Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc KW - London KW - London (England) KW - Uncorrected proofs (Printing) KW - pri KW - Didactic fiction KW - gsafd KW - rbpri KW - lcsh KW - Allegories KW - lcgft N1 - This item was donated by the family of Diane Cilento; Angel Gibreel -- Mahound -- Ellowen Deeowen -- Ayesha -- City Visible but Unseen -- Return to Jahilia -- Angel Azraeel -- Parting of the Arabian Sea -- Wonderful Lamp; Also issued online N2 - A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur--Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined ER -