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Coup by John Updike (1980, Mass Market)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100449242595
ISBN-139780449242599
eBay Product ID (ePID)1296606
Product Key Features
Book TitleCoup
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Political
Publication Year1980
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight6.5 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
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 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, "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, "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
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Dewey Decimal813/.5/4
SynopsisThe 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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