May 7, 1999

Salman Rushdie Starts Tour for New Book at Bard College

Salman Rushdie surprised students at Bard College when he arrived on the campus last month. It was the first stop on his United States book tour.

More than 400 administrators, professors, and students gathered in an auditorium to hear Mr. Rushdie read from his book The Ground Beneath Her Feet, published last month by Henry Holt & Company. The novel, a takeoff on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, tells the story of an Indian rock

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