{"product_id":"fury-salman-rushdie-9780679783503","title":"Fury","description":"A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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, \u003ci\u003e The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. It reaffirms Rushdie's standing . . . at the very front rank of contemporary literary novelists.\"--\u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Salman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679783504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679783503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/11\/2002 pg. 24","brand":"Salman Rushdie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925579628799,"sku":"9780679783503","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ee016671-ea12-4c43-a20f-14a507503e37.jpg?v=1681078110","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fury-salman-rushdie-9780679783503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}