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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811208419
ISBN-139780811208413
eBay Product ID (ePID)257259
Product Key Features
Book TitleLove and Terror : Novel
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Political, Thrillers / Terrorism, Jewish
Publication Year1982
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorWilliam Herrick
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight0.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN80-025140
SynopsisThe story of the lives and disillusionment of three revolutionaries is told through a terrorist's notebook and interviews with a nameless journalist., Now available as a New Directions paperbook, Love and Terror, William Herrick's second novel with ND, both reflects and anticipates today's headlines. Terrorist kidnappings, hijackings, and dramatic rescues all form a part of the plot, but Herrick's interest lies less in tension-filled heroics than in the human cost of flawed idealism. Through the notebook of the principal terrorist, Viktor X, the complex characters of Viktor and Gabriele, for whom love and terrorism are intertwined and inseparable, are revealed. And in a series of interviews with a nameless reporter, the lives of three disillusioned revolutionaries--"the old ones," now hostages to a new brand of revolution--gradually and movingly unfold. In his earlier Shadows and Wolves (New Directions, 1980), Herrick showed us the possibility of human solutions that transcend politics. In Love and Terror he shows us why any ideology, inflexibly adhered to, makes such solutions necessary.
