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Terrorist

A Novel

By John Updike

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| Paperback | 9780345493910

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John Updike has written a brilliant novel that ranks among the most provocative of his distinguished career. Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town hContinue

John Updike has written a brilliant novel that ranks among the most provocative of his distinguished career. Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words of the Holy Qur’an as expounded to him by the pedantic imam of a local mosque, Ahmad devotes himself fervently to God. Neither the world-weary guidance counselor at his high school nor Ahmad’s mischievously seductive classmate Joryleen succeeds in deflecting him from his course, as the threads of an insidious plot gather around him.

“One compelling and surprising ride.”–USA Today
“The startlingly contemporary story of a high school student . . . whose zealous Islamic faith and disaffection with modern life make him a pawn in the larger conflict between Muslim and Christian, East and West. They also make him a powerful voice for Updike’s ongoing critique of American civilization.”
–Time

“A chilling tale that is perhaps the most essential novel to emerge from Sept. 11.”
–People (Critic’s Choice)

Critics

  • 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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