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Book Description
In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues – the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Terrorist traces the journey of one young man, from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against thContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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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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- English Books
- eBook 320 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0141921803
- ISBN-13: 9780141921808
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Pub date: Jul 26, 2007
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780141921808 | eBook | $14.20 | -- | The Book Depository |
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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)