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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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