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Fury
de Rushdie, Salman
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0224061593
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061599
- Librería
-
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Jonathan Cape, 2001 F/F. 8vo. original black boards gilt in export dustwrapper; pp. [vi (last blank)], 262 (last blank). A fine copy.. First Australian. Hard Cover. F/F.
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
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 020864
- Título
- Fury
- Autor
- Rushdie, Salman
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - F
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- F
- Edición
- First Australian
- ISBN 10
- 0224061593
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061599
- Editorial
- Jonathan Cape
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- Salman Rushdie Fury
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Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
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