Tolkien was reading aloud from an early draft of The Lord of the Rings, was heard to comment. Jacket protected by a Brodart adjustable archival cover. Reading these novels, one begins to feel like the English academic Hugo Dyson who, while J.R.R. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Salman Rushdie’s great grasp of the human tragicomedy its dimensions, its absurdities and horrorshas made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language.Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. Hardcover with slate blue boards and silver gilt lettering in near fine condition. Jacket is unclipped and in near fine condition. 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.Ĭondition: Near Fine (See Condition Notes)Ĭondition Notes: 1st Edition, 2nd Print hardcover with dust jacket. 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 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.
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