<![CDATA[Fury]]>

false <![CDATA[Fury]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165468734m/4836.jpg 4836 22 Fury is a gloss on fin-de-siècle angst from the master of the quintuple entendre. Salman Rushdie hauls his hero, Malik Solanka, from Bombay to London to New York, and finally to a fictional Third World country, all in order to show off a preternatural ability to riff on anything from Bollywood musicals to revolutionary politics. Professor Solanka is propelled on this path by his strange love of dolls. He plays with them as a child; as an adult he quits his post at Cambridge in order to produce a TV show wherein an animated doll, Little Brain, meets the great thinkers of history. Little Brain becomes a smash hit, and perhaps inevitably, Solanka finds himself in America. (It's not only the show-biz version of manifest destiny that brings him to the New World: one night in London he finds himself standing over the sleeping figures of his beloved wife and child, frighteningly close to stabbing them. This intellectual puppeteer is, of course, fleeing himself.) Now, in New York, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but his fury is a kind of Everyfury. It's road rage writ large--the natural reaction to an excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneously here: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennial Manhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a sense of Rushdie's reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories of childhood, he recalls "his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi." Here's a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist's soul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. If it sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent, it's that too. --Claire Dederer 1440905 2001 Fury total:1785|5:220|4:529|3:657|2:295|1:84| 1785 5861 2474 157 0 4 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jan 03 14:20:14 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 12:15:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 3 false false Sun Jul 06 06:39:01 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 06:40:00 -0700 2008 1 2 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:23:13 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 18:12:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 19:23:01 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 17 11:31:34 -0800 2009
This book is about a cambridge-educated professor who has a messed up childhood and becomes a creator of alternate worlds in his bid to live a better life. His creation becomes wildly popular and lucr...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Apr 14 16:38:45 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 11:34:29 -0700 2008
First, there was the autobiography of a dirty middle-aged man aspect. It turns out much of the book was semi-factual, and Rushdie really did leave hi...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Feb 06 07:53:15 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 07:55:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue May 08 15:37:36 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 10:57:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 13:00:21 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 13:13:25 -0800 2009
I have ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 09:38:02 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 09:39:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 19:53:42 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 18:49:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 13:30:14 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 04:29:35 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 20 10:25:07 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 19:51:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 10:00:46 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:00:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 27 09:12:16 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 09:12:16 -0700 2009 On the one hand, there are ample biographical similarities between Professor Malik Solanka, and Salman Rushdie so that one could assume this novel is a character piece. On the other hand, the plot line often fol...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 29 16:51:43 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 16:57:58 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Sat Jul 14 22:54:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 22:55:05 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:46:57 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 01:02:22 -0700 2009
I tottally recommend it, but read it soon, in 10-15 years it will lose interest as the world is changing so fast.

Probably in 2001 when it was publish...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 24 17:27:38 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 17:35:28 -0800 2009 Unquestionably, the writing is exquisite, the vocabulary is challenging, the plot is hard to follow in the beginning and when it is clarified I still wondere...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 11 10:20:34 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 14 22:29:40 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 06:10:20 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 07:22:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4836