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Fury
by Salman Rushdie
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- Hardcover
- first
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- New/Perfect
- ISBN 10
- 067946333X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679463337
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About This Item
Random House, 2001. First. Hardback. New/Perfect.
New.First Edition. Never read, in perfect condition. Photos are of this book.
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""Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.""
259 pp.Synopsis
An astounding, intensely disturbing novel by one of the world's great writers.From one of the world's truly great writers, Fury is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. Fury opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka,, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives looking, perversely, for escape. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of the hugely popular doll, Little Brain, whose multiform ubiquity - as puppet, cartoon and masked woman - now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating: it escalates into a rage-filled battle, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgivable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees home and family and becomes a sort of spiritual mendicant - except that he has a credit card and a duplex on the Upper West Side. Solanka discovers that he has come to a city Roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentments. His own thoughts, emotions and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. Solanka's navigation of his new world makes for a hugely entertaining and compulsively readable novel. Fury is a pitiless comedy that lays bare the darkest side of human nature with spectacular insight and much glee.
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- Bee's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11
- Title
- Fury
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Perfect
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067946333X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679463337
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- British -- United States -- Fiction; College teachers -- Fiction; Middle-aged men -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
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