Terrorist by John Updike Paperback Book

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Author: John Updike

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Abridged-CD

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: Jun 2006

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $36.95

Discs: 9

Synopsis

John Updike aims to shape the pastiche portrait of the homegrown terrorist (a la Richard Reid, John Walker, even Timothy McVeigh) into something psychologically rich and artistically profound. A lesser writer would have stumbled into threadbare stereotype, but Updike is up to the task, and his novel about Ahmad Mulloy Ashmawy, an angry 18-year-old who falls under the sway of a fundamental Islamic leader, simultaneously captures the seething rage of the alienated youth, and provides a vivid window into a world of shame, hate, and outlandish schemes that could, eventually, come to catastrophic fruition.

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