The Coup - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039450268X ISBN 13: 9780394502687

Verlag: Knopf, 1978

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; 298 p.; 22 cm. Subjects; Exiles - Africa - Fiction. Africa - Politics and government - Fiction.

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Críticas:

"One of Updike's boldest and most imaginative performances."--Newsweek

"Ellelloû is an extraordinary tour-de-force of a character. . . . What a rich, surprising, and often funny novel The Coup is."--The New York Times Book Review

"A very funny book as well as a serious one. It's the work of an intelligent and funny and passionate man--and it's good."--The Washington Post Book World

Reseña del editor:

The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû. (“A leader,” writes Colonel Ellelloû, “is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.”) Colonel Ellelloû has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion—cultural, ideological, and personal—to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellelloû tells his own story—always elegantly, and often in the third person—from an undisclosed location in the South of France.

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• Verlag: Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1978
• ISBN 10: 039450268X
• ISBN 13: 9780394502687
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320