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The Coup by John Updike (1978, Hardcover)
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"The Coup" describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim FElix EllelloU. ("A leader," writes Colonel EllelloU, "is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. ).
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"The Coup" describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim FElix EllelloU. ("A leader," writes Colonel EllelloU, "is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.") Colonel EllelloU 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 EllelloU tells his own story--always elegantly, and often in the third person--from an undisclosed location in the South of France. "From the Trade Paperback edition."Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10039450268x
ISBN-139780394502687
eBay Product ID (ePID)844554
Product Key Features
Edition1
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1978
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
GroupTrade
Reviews"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 Coupis." -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, "One of Updike's boldest and most imaginative performances."-- Newsweek "Ellello 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
Dewey Edition22
Publication Date1978-11-12
Lccn78-055399
Dewey Decimal813/.5/4
Lc Classification NumberPs3571.P4.C58
Copyright Date1978
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