Book #29762

Fury - 1st Edition/1st Impression

Salman Rushdie
Book #29762 Fury - 1st Edition/1st Impression. Salman Rushdie.

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 2001.
ISBN: 0224061593

A handsome first Impression of the first edition in unread Fine condition in Near Fine dust-wrapper with little creasing to bottom and top of spine and small closed tears. SIGNED by author Salman Rushdie directly on the title page.

Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side 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; 8vo; [vi], 259, [7] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $80.00

Author Bio

Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born June 19, 1947, he is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to protests from Muslims in several countries. Faced with a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground. Rushdie was knighed for services to literature on 16 June 2007.

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