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Now, in New York, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but his fury is a kind of Everyfury. It's road rage writ large--the natural reaction to an excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneously here: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennial Manhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a sense of Rushdie's reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories of childhood, he recalls "his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi." Here's a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist's soul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. If it sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent, it's that too. --Claire Dederer
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Salman Rushdies great grasp of the human tragicomedy its dimensions, its absurdities and horrorshas made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language.Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. It reaffirms Rushdies standing . . . at the very front rank of contemporary literary novelists.Baltimore Sun Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. Theres a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of Americas wealth and power, seeking to erase himself. But fury is all around him. An astonishing work of explosive energy, Fury is by turns a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a love story of mesmerizing force, and a disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature. Rushdies ideasabout society, about culture, about politicsare embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. . . . All of Rushdies synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream.Los Angeles Times Book Review Well, here it is, then, his first 3-D, full-volume American novel, finger-snapping, wildly stupefying, often slyly funny, red-blooded and red-toothed. [Fury] twinkles brightly in tragicomic passages.The Miami Herald In his eighth novel, Rushdie brilliantly entwines moments of anger and frenzy with those of humor, honesty, and intimacy. Not since the "Bombay of Midnight's Children" have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780679783503
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