Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherch produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats. Rents and property values had never been higher, and in the garment industry it was widely held that fashion had never been so fashionable. Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired. Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age. Fury is, above all, a masterly chronicle of the human condition.
In his eighth novel, Salman 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. It is also an astonishing portrait of New York.
As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world.įury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a D'Angelo Voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.īut fury is all around him.
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. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. We tear each other limb from bloody limb." We raise each other to the heights of joy. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal - drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths.
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