Terrorist - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141030925 ISBN 13: 9780141030920

Publisher: Penguin, 2007

Synopsis

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 the backdrop of a fraying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented community. In beautiful prose, Updike dramatizes the logic of the fundamentalist terrorist – but also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our actions . . .

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Review:

""Terrorist" leaves the reader ripping through the book to its finale, desperate to find out what happens. . . . [A] compelling and surprising ride."--"USA Today"
"A chilling tale that is perhaps the most essential novel to emerge from September 11."--"People" (Critic's Choice)
"Riveting . . . emotionally daring . . . Updike's ability to get inside the mind of his Ahmad . . . is what renders the novel credible and sometimes wrenching in its authenticity."--"The Boston Globe"

"Terrorist" leaves the reader ripping through the book to its finale, desperate to find out what happens. . . . [A] compelling and surprising ride. "USA Today"
A chilling tale that is perhaps the most essential novel to emerge from September 11. "People" (Critic s Choice)
Riveting . . . emotionally daring . . . Updike s ability to get inside the mind of his Ahmad . . . is what renders the novel credible and sometimes wrenching in its authenticity. "The Boston Globe""

"Terrorist leaves the reader ripping through the book to its finale, desperate to find out what happens. . . . [A] compelling and surprising ride."--USA Today
"A chilling tale that is perhaps the most essential novel to emerge from September 11."--People (Critic's Choice)
"Riveting . . . emotionally daring . . . Updike's ability to get inside the mind of his Ahmad . . . is what renders the novel credible and sometimes wrenching in its authenticity."--The Boston Globe

About the Author:

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film; Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies; Toward the End of Time; Gertrude and Claudius; and Seek My Face. He has written a number of collections of short stories, including The Afterlife and Other Stories and Licks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story, Rabbit Remembered. His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes. Collected Poems 1953-1993 brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his Selected Poems is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.

His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.

Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141030925
• ISBN 13: 9780141030920
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320