Terrorist

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• Paradise lost

  Terrorist by John Updike 310pp, Hamish Hamilton, £17.99 At a stage at which he might be forgiven for resting on his well-earned laurels, John Updike has chosen to tackle a subject as risky as it is topical. Set in post-9/11 New Jersey, Terrorist char ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Portrait of the terrorist as a young aesthete

  Terrorist by John Updike (Hamish Hamilton £17.99, pp310) This is a profoundly curious novel for John Updike to have written. With its alarmist title bisected by a bolt of apocalyptic lightning on the cover, and its determined plotting towards a clima ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Simply the best 9-11 novel.

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  Boring, slow, did not like the story and how long it took to develop it

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• English Books
• Hardcover 320 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0241143519
• ISBN-13: 9780241143513
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher

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