FURY
Salman Rushdie
Manny swears he did not steal this from the book jacket A bitingly satiric look into the mind of a genius, Milak Solanka, and his personal demons that takes us from Bombay to Manhattan to a fictional Third World country (Pakistan again perhaps?) by the master of the infinite entendre, Salman Rushdie. The hero and the girlfriend he picks up after he leaves his wife and his son in India are thinly fictionalized representatives of the author and his girlfriend, reminiscent of his portrayal of the Ayatolla that put the fatwa on his head. Rushdie tackles Americana and American politics with a lugubrious zest akin to Baudrillard. Every satirical statement, every guarded observation, reveals his ambivalence towards the media culture that saturates and ultimately provides the language for the daily experience of what it means to be an American. A strong follow up to the epic The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Rushdie is still at the height of his literary prowess.
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