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Fury. A Novel.
de Rushdie, Salman
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- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- ISBN 10
- 0224061593
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061599
- Librería
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
London: Jonathan Cape. 2001. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 259 pages. 'Fury' is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch black comedy, a profounding disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerising force. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- BIB301168
- Título
- Fury. A Novel.
- Autor
- Rushdie, Salman
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado -
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0224061593
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061599
- Editorial
- Jonathan Cape
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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Adelaide Booksellers
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia
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Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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