Started: 5/19/07
Finished: 5/21/07
Year: 2001
Pages: 259
Genre: Literature
Grade: C
Reason for reading-booksfree.com book
Blurb (from back cover): "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.
"Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and picth-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. It is also an astonishing portrait of New York. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel."
Opinion: A lot of description that made me skim over parts of the book. I got the basic gist but I didn't find myself engrossed in it.
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