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FURY

- by Salman Rushdie -

ISBN: 0224061593

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, UK

Published: 2001

Binding: HARDcover with Dustjacket 259 crisp pages

Condition: UNread condition! retired display copy!

Edition: FIRST EDITION: FIRST Printing!! Complete number line

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UNread - it was the display copy. It is Tight - neat, no inscriptions or marks. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!! A nicely preserved copy - superb!

Minimal if any discernible shelf wear, the interior is tight and spotlesslyclean with 259 pages. COLLECTABLE FIRST PRINTING!!

Inoriginal BLACK HARDcover binding, glossy pictorial dustcover.

PUBLISHER\'S SYNOPSIS FROM INSIDE DUSTJACKET ....

Fury is the story of a dollmakerwhose dolls run wild, of living women turned into dolls and then broken, and ofa revolt on the planet\'s far side led by an army of living dolls.

\"Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political,magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This iswhat we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animalin us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord ofcreation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limbfrom bloody limb.\"
Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out ofhis life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and fleesLondon for New York. There\'s a fury within him, and he fears he has becomedangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedentedplenty, in the highest hour of America\'s wealth and power, seeking to\"erase\" himself. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.
But fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer ismurdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deepresentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, anddesires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in aD\'Angelo Voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, withwhom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lieon the far side of the world.
Fury is a work of explosive energy,at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry intothe darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. It isalso an astonishing portrait of New York. Not since the Bombay of Midnight\'s Children have a time andplace been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel.
In his eighth novel, Salman Rushdie brilliantly entwines moments of anger andfrenzy with those of humor, honesty, and intimacy. Fury is, above all, a masterly chronicle of the human condition.

Very very entertaining read!

Reviews..

“SalmanRushdie’s great grasp of the human tragicomedy–its dimensions, its absurditiesand horrors–has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in theEnglish language.” – Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe“Fury is a profoundly, ecstaticallyaffirmative work of fiction. It reaffirms Rushdie’s standing . . . at the veryfront rank of contemporary literary novelists.” – Baltimore SunMalik Solanka, historian ofideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons hisfamily in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. There’sa fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. Hearrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour ofAmerica’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. But fury is all aroundhim. An astonishing work of explosive energy, Fury is by turns a pitiless andpitch-black comedy, a love story of mesmerizing force, and a disturbing inquiryinto the darkest side of human nature.

“Rushdie’s ideas–about society, about culture, about politics–are embedded inhis stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. . . .All of Rushdie’s synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient mythand old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfiguresreason into a waking dream.” – LosAngeles Times Book Review“Well, here it is, then, his first 3-D,full-volume American novel, finger-snapping, wildly stupefying, often slylyfunny, red-blooded and red-toothed. [Fury] twinkles brightly in tragicomicpassages.” –The Miami Herald

Amazon.comReview….. Fury is a gloss onfin-de-siècle angst from the master of the quintuple entendre. Salman Rushhauls his hero, Malik Solanka, from Bombay to London to New York, and finallyto a fictional Third World country, all in order to show off a preternaturalability to riff on anything from Bollywood musicals to revolutionary politics.Professor Solanka is propelled on this path by his strange love of dolls. Heplays with them as a child; as an adult he quits his post at Cambridge in orderto produce a TV show wherein an animated doll, Little Brain, meets the great thinkersof history. Little Brain becomes a smash hit, and perhaps inevitably, Solankafinds himself in America. (It\'s not only the show-biz version of manifestdestiny that brings him to the New World: one night in London he finds himselfstanding over the sleeping figures of his beloved wife and child, frighteninglyclose to stabbing them. This intellectual puppeteer is, of course, fleeinghimself.)

Now, in NewYork, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but hisfury is a kind of Everyfury. It\'s road rage writ large--the natural reaction toan excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneouslyhere: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennialManhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a senseof Rushdie\'s reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories ofchildhood, he recalls \"his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi.\"Here\'s a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist\'ssoul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. Ifit sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent,it\'s that too.

From Publishers Weekly ……. The sea change has invigoratedRushdie. His new novel is very much an American book, a bitingly satiric, oftenwildly farcical picture of American society in the first years of the 21stcentury. The twice transplanted protagonist (Bombay born, Cambridge educated,now Manhattan resident) Prof. Malik Solanka is an unimaginably wealthy man,transformed from a philosophy professor into a BBC-TV star, then into theinventor of a wildly popular doll called Little Brain. Compelled to relinquishcontrol of the doll when it metamorphoses into an industry, the furious Solankaflees London for an apartment on Manhattan\'s Upper West Side. His prosecrackling with irony, Rushdie catches roiling undercurrents of incivility andinchoate anger: in cab drivers, moviegoers and sidewalk pedestrians; in ethnicantagonisms; in political confrontations; and in Solly himself, as he tries tosurmount his guilt over having abandoned a loving wife and three-year-old sonin England, and as he becomes involved with two new women. Rushdie\'sbrilliantly observant portrait of \"this money-mad burg\" ismercilessly au courant, with references to George Gush and Al Bore, to Elianand Tony Soprano, and to \"shawls made from the chin fluff of extinctmountain goats.\" The action is helter-skelter fast and refreshinglyconcise; this is a slender book for Rushdie, and his relatively narrow focusresults in a crisper narrative; there are fewer puns and a deeper emotionalinvolvement with his characters. Still, his tendency to go over the top leadsto some incredulity for the reader; it\'s a bit much that short, unprepossessingSolly is a magnet for gorgeous, articulate women, who all tend to speak in thesame didactic monologues. On the whole, however, readers will nod inacknowledgement of Rushdie\'s recognition that \"the whole world was burningon a shorter fuse.\" Rushdie remains a master of satire that rings truewith unsettling acuity and dark, comedic brilliance. Agent, Andrew Wylie.8-city author tour. (Sept. 11)Forecast: Rushdie has never been so sharplyobservant of the American psyche and the contemporary scene, and thus sorelevant to U.S. readers. His increasing visibility after the isolation of thefatwa years should create a buzz of interest in this novel.

LIKE A DOLL SCORNED .......... I only just read FURY for the first time, and my tardiness finds Salman Rushdie\'s book now embedded in a post 9/11 English speaking world that is at \"war\" against terrorism, with the author being lately knighted, provoking a renewed fatwa on his life. I can\'t help thinking that reading FURY at this time led me to a different perspective from those reading it upon its publication in 2001.
Many others have pointedout that FURY is not Salman Rushdie\'s finest work, but it is still a fabulous read. I found it to be intelligent and moving, if at times unnecessarily difficult. This group of Rushdie\'s characters seems completely modern yet with a timeless feel. Rushdie\'s plot once again revolves around alter-realities; sometimes cultural, but mostly psychological, and I found the doll trope particularly attractive.
If you\'ve read Rushdie I highly recommend FURY, if not, begin with MIDNIGHT\"S CHILDREN or the incomparable SATANIC VERSES.

BRILLIANTLY UNLEASHES THE GREEK FURIES ON MODERN AMERICA ......... Furious. The word means extremely angry or violent, but it can also meananything involving violence, anger, or speed (such as \"Fists of Fury\" and the absurd \"The Fast and the Furious\"). Its roots reach back to Greek mythology, to the three snake-haired, bat-winged, and dog-faced goddesses Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera. These three horrible deities were the vengeful hands of the gods, punishing evil and wrongdoing, especially within families.In FURY, Salman Rushdie uses every variation on these definitions, and the etymology of the word itself, todescribe with modern life in America (as represented by New York City) and the fragility of family, relationships, and perhaps even sanity. Rushdie sarcasm cuts sharp and deep. His New York (no, his America) is an empty land, a moral vacuum filled with sensationalism, tawdriness, superficiality, materialism in the extreme, capitalism run rampant, self-serving and incompetent politicians the endless striving for publicity without sense of shame, culture without depth, and, like a drug addiction (note that both his heroes studiously avoid medicines anddrugs of any kind), a continuous search for the constantly escalating \"fix\" that gives the citizenry their latest cheap thrill or sense of meaning. \"The whole world was burning on a shorter fuse. There was a knife twisting in every gut, a scourge for every back.\" Rushdie also conceives three female Furies of his own (Solanka\'s wife Eleanor Masters, his cyberpunk neighbor and father-figure seeking Mila Milo, andthe enchantingly beautiful Neela), and they indeed each exact their form of vengeance on the main character and sinner, Professor Malik Solanka.Professor Solanka gives up his esteemed seat in philosophy at King\'s College, University of Cambridge, to develop a television program about the great philosophers using dolls as the main characters. The host/narrator/interviewer, a blonde female doll named Little Brain, travels through time to interview Spinoza, Galileo, and others. Against all odds, the show is highly successful, and Little Brain even more so. The doll takes on a marketing life of her own, becoming one of the world\'s best-selling toys even as she bears no residual connection whatsoever to philosophy. Wildly financially successful, Solanka is nevertheless unfulfilled. He finds himself prone to sudden, almost inexplicable rages, and they grow in strength until hefinds himself one night standing over his wife\'s bed with a carving knife in his hands. To save his wife and young son from himself, he leaves them without explanation and heads for New York City, the land ofcontinual regeneration and rebirth.Solanka\'s appearance alone in New York sets the stage for all manner of adventures, most of which generate satire filled with cynicism about the people, politics, and culture of America. Everyone falls within his sniper\'s sights - Giulianiand Police Commissioner Safir are glove-puppets, Bush vs. Gore becomes Gush vs. Bore, Ellen DeGeneris delivers her \"deeply so-so material\" and exclaims to her adoring throng of screaming women, \"Praise me, thank you, thank you, praise me some more, hey, look, Anne [Heche], we\'re an icon! wow!, it\'s so humbling...\" Rushdie mines the current events and culture deeply - Elian Gonzalez, Amadou Diallo, Marc Antony and Marky Mark, El Duque, Halle, Tyra, Kate, Brad, Gwynnie, Meg , Julia, Tom, Jenny, Puffy, Mick, Christie Brinkley, Woody Allen, Donatella Versace, Charlton Heston (\"Who let Charlton Heston out of his cage and then askedwhy children were getting shot?\") - just to throw their inanity back inour face. And it works. \"Everyone was an American now, or at least Americanized...Even anti-Americanism was Americanism in disguise, conceding, as it did, that America was the only game in town...\" Literary allusions abound as well, from Kafka to Jackie Susann, from Joseph Conrad to Stanislaw Lem. Set within Rushdie\'s telescopic rifle sight, Maya Angelou becomes \"the model for millions of young people...O,her dauntlessness in the face of poverty and cruelty! O, her joy when Fate chose her to be one of its Elect!\"Rushdie\'s story line wanders through the landscape of modern America. A string of gruesome serial murders (which Professor Solanka believes he may even have committed in his blinding, black-out rages) invades the upper crust of New York\'s young female socialites as 19- and 20-year olds Lauren Klein (a marriage of Ralph and Calvin?), Belinda Booken Candell, and Saskia \"Sky\" Schuyler die horribly, linked to a thrill-seeking sadomasochistic sex club. Rushdie draws particularly on the role of the Internet in creating further avenues of estrangement and escapism via a host of alternate realities. As ever, these virtual realities take on their own \"real life,\" become marketed as products (Solanka strikes it rich a second time by inventing another set of \"virtual dolls\" whose story-lineand characters actually inspire and invoke a revolution in a South Asian island named Lilliput-Blefuscu, drawn from the warring islands in Gulliver\'s Travels but modeled loosely on East Timor). Not only does America promote the confusion of real and make-believe, it exports thoseproducts around the world for good or bad.At times chilling, attimes hilarious, and at times fantastical and even slapstick (everywhere that Neela went, pratfalls among her male admirers were sureto go), FURY is an outlandish tale of post-millennial, globally networked, American-inspired life. Furious with its own ebullient energy, this story creates and explodes its own myths (Little Brain, Akasz Kronos, creator of the Puppet Kings of Baburia) and then explodes their superficiality in disturbing counterpoint to the depth and meaningfulness of the ancient Greek myths. A manic, hyperventilated, crazy quilt novel this may be, but as ever, Salman Rushdie\'s scalpel cuts sharply to expose the absurdities and tragedies of modern life. FURY is a joy to read and savor.

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