"Salman Rushdie's great grasp of the human tragicomedy--its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors--has 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. It reaffirms Rushdie's standing, in my opinion, at the very front rank of contemporary literary novelists." -Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun "Rushdie's ideas--about society, about culture, about politics--are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. His reflective power lies in the way his fiction simply unfolds. All of Rushdie's synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "Well, here it is, then, his first 3-D, full-volume American novel, finger-snapping, wildly stupefying, often slyly funny, red-blooded and red-toothed. [Fury] twinkles brightly in tragicomic passages." -The Miami Herald "[Salman Rushdie's] latest work contains all the linguistic virtuosity of his earlier books, and layer upon layer of sociopolitical observations that only an outsider as brilliant as Rushdie could make.... Fury offers an energetic, deeply engaging story, full of gorgeous, often hilarious passages." -The Hartford Courant "The sea change has invigorated Rushdie. His new novel is very much an American book, a bitingly satiric, often wildly farcical picture of American society in the first years of the 21st century." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Fury flaunts all of Rushdie's intimidating gifts. ThereÕs the fascination with buzzwords, psychobabble, and doublespeak from an intellectual whoÕs expert in the language games of postmodern philosophy.... Alternately a metaphysical thriller and a sci-fi-tinged fantasy, a treatise on gender politics and a farce about academia, the novel teemsÑas its hero does-with ideas. Not only is the book smart, it also happens to be Rushdie's most entertaining." -Book "Fury positively vibrates with intellectual energy (it's also frequently quite funny)." -Kirkus Reviews "Rushdie's vision of humanity-his totally unfettered imagination-rests on the twin foundations of his cosmopolitanism and his intelligence. His vibrant, metaphorically soaring language is the fuel that runs this outlandish, poignant novel to its amazing conclusion." -Booklist (starred review) "Rushdie is an important writer on the world stage. [Fury] displays a good sampling of the bedazzling erudition, clever word play and philosophical meanderings with which this singular writer has managed both to enchant and to antagonize so many readers around the globe." -Bookpage "Salman Rushdie's new novel, Fury, is a masterful fairy tale with a sardonic, au courant edge.... Like all good fairy tales, Fury has a moral. Rushdie artfully explores issues of race and class. [We] see American life through a newcomer's eyes and our sense of ourselves is forever changed." -Houston Chronicle "If Fury contains a Shakespearean vertigo, it counters it with a Shakespearean poise among shifting values.... Rushdie's iconic status should not confuse us. Fury confirms his place among the worldÕs wittiest and wisest writers." -The Providence Sunday Journal "The satisfaction-the joy-of reading Salman Rushdie derives from the craft, ingenuity, the constant word play with which he spins out his inventions. He makes plausible what in the hands of any other writer would be a contrived and preposterous storyline." -The Times (Trenton, N.J.) "What remains... is Rushdie's great facility with language, and the knowing social and cultural observations served up by his tour guide of a narrator." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Rushdie writes of the pulse of America as if he had lived here his entire life. Few can capture the dark side of our society in such a comedic way. His examination of the uneasy alliances between men and women is insightful and enlightening. This novel succeeds on many levels and is a timely reminder to order the priorities in our lives. Rushdie is now welcomed into the fold as an American author of the highest stature." -The Tampa Tribune and Times "With [Fury] Rushdie delivers another Molotov cocktail that mixes absurd and mundane, erudite and sentimental." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Newcomers to Rushdie will delight at the puns, the allusions, the nimbleness." -Detroit Free Press "Another showcase of Rushdie's brilliant episodic imagination.... The novel could equally well turn out to be for the end of the last century what Kerouac did for the United StatesÕ 1960s, or Balzac for 19th-century France.... RushdieÕs strikingly imaginative language is as fabulous as ever, from the first sentence to the last..." -Winston-Salem Journal "Fury is an invigorating essay that diagnoses the fever of the current age from an insider's point of view." -The Onion Modern Library  •  Privacy Policy  •  Subscribe to newsletters