Fury is everything which is evil in man – the mythical flies ugly sisters Erinnyes Eumenides vengeful wrath: Terror, strife, Lies, Vengeance, Intemperance Altercation, Fear and Battle. Fury is used in many contexts in this novel, which is blackly funny, engaging, easy to read, and as verbose and modern as anything Rushdie has written. His anger is also part of the broader anger of the world – the human condition, which prefigures recent terrorist attacks, and hints at the kind of anger which makes anything possible. At 55, the Indian born, NY dwelling protagonist of Rushdie’s latest novel Fury, has the kind of rage which causes him to stand with a knife over the sleeping bodies of his wife and son, scream in public, and slip between the red heat of anger to blackouts which leave him questioning his sanity and public safety. Not just irritated or cranky, but filled with fury, and not just his own fury, but the everyman fury that characterises his age.
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