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  • Published: 26 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141921808
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Terrorist




A searingly powerful, utterly gripping and timely new novel from one of America's greatest living writers: John Updike, one of America's greatest living writers, tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within

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 . . .

  • Published: 26 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141921808
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

John Updike

John Updike was born in 1932, in hillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

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