This former philosophy professor is the inventor of a hugely popular doll, whose multiform ubiquity -- as puppet, cartoon, and talk-show host -- now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating: It escalates into a rage-filled battle, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgivable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees home and family in London and becomes a sort of spiritual mendicant -- except that he has a credit card and a duplex on the Upper West Side.
He discovers that he has come to a city roiling with anger, where cabdrivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentments. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild.
Professor Solanka's navigation of his new world makes for a hugely entertaining and compulsively readable novel. Fury is a pitiless comedy that lays bare, with spectacular insight and much glee, the darkest side of human nature.
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