![]() ![]() ![]() The doll masks which are one of the manifestations of the show-s popularity later become a plot point. It became a cult hit, was taken up further, spawning the usual commercial opportunities attendant on success, but in the process was dumbed down. He was also the creator of a TV series in which a doll called Little Brain hosted a kind of chat show where various historical and philosophical figures were interviewed. He was so full of fury he had almost killed her and their young son and he fled to New York to escape that horror becoming reality. The novel deals with Solanka’s life after leaving his second wife. ![]() Now, it could be said that Rushdie is playing with the reader, essaying a fable, but, really, three of those crudely dumped slivers of information are examples of newspaper prose and the knowledge they bring us ought to have emerged more organically during the course of the novel. It also begins inauspiciously with a very Dan Brownesque first sentence, “Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticised) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age.” It is not a vintage work, no Midnight’s Children nor Shame. Set mostly in New York Fury is perhaps the fruit of Rushdie’s move to the US after the restrictions necessitated by the fatwa made life in the UK less than congenial for him. ![]()
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