Fury by Rushdie, Salman

Fury (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679783503)

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Fury by Rushdie, Salman

Fury

$17.00
Fury by Rushdie, Salman

Fury

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

"Salman Rushdie's great grasp of the human tragicomedy- its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors-has 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 Rushdie's 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. There's 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 America's 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.

"Rushdie's ideas-about society, about culture, about politics-are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. . . . All of Rushdie's 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

Author: Salman Rushdie
ISBN-10: 0679783504
ISBN-13: 9780679783503
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2002
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.58d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/11/2002 pg. 24
By Salman Rushdie
By Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, East, West; a memoir, Joseph Anton; a work of reportage, The Jaguar Smile; and three collections of essays, most recently Languages of Truth. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre ﾉtranger; the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America. His books have been translated into over forty languages.

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