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Fury : A Novel
por Rushdie, Salman
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0676974406
- ISBN 13
- 9780676974409
- Livreiro
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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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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- Livreiro
- Wonder Book
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- P05C-02024
- Título
- Fury : A Novel
- Autor
- Rushdie, Salman
- Estado do livro
- Used - Good
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0676974406
- ISBN 13
- 9780676974409
- Editorial
- Knopf Canada
- Local de publicação
- Toronto, On, Canada
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2001
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