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  • Published: 24 November 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188959
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $35.00

The Coup




First time in PMC

Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...

  • Published: 24 November 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188959
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $35.00

About the author

John Updike

JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.

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