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Fury A Novel

Fury A Novel Hardcover - 2001

by Rushdie, Salman

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New York, NY: Random House. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 067946333X . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. The former owner has added a ribbon bookmark to the text block. "Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981) , won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. After his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988) , Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. Numerous killings and bombings have been carried out by extremists who cite the book as motivation, sparking a debate about censorship and religiously motivated violence. On 12 August 2022, a man stabbed Rushdie after rushing onto the stage where the novelist was scheduled to deliver a lecture at an event in Chautauqua, New York." (from Wikipedia) .
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  • Title Fury A Novel
  • Author Rushdie, Salman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition; 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House, New York, NY
  • Date 2001
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A43766
  • ISBN 9780679463337 / 067946333X
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.38 x 0.93 in (24.33 x 16.21 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00054699
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

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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