John Updike
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| Original Title: | Terrorist |
| ISBN: | 0307264653 (ISBN13: 9780307264657) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | New Jersey(United States) |
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The ever-surprising John Updike’s twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur’an, as expounded to him by a local mosque’s imam. The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad’s mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path. When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security. But to quote the Qur’an: Of those who plot, God is the best.List About Books Terrorist
| Title | : | Terrorist |
| Author | : | John Updike |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | June 6th 2006 by Knopf |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. War. Terrorism. Contemporary. American. Novels. Thriller |
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John Updike has earned a mantel full of awards, including a Pulitzer and a National Book Award. He knows people and he knows how tough even the most mundane lives can be. And Updike knows how to write. At his best when writing of normal people living flawed, empathetic lives, Updike stretches himself in his latest novel, Terrorist. He writes the story of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Mulloy, the American son of an Egyptian exchange student father who ran off when Ahmad was three without so much as aYou can only call this book bewilderingly sexist, built on a whole range of flawed racial, religious and gender stereotypes. Lazy, unimaginative writing. Its the kind of book you keep expecting to get better, but it doesnt so just give up.
John Updike has never been one to drop a bollock but dear god, this is an embarrassing effort. This is not only a hammy read, but the characters, with the exception of Ahmad, are detestable caricatures who are everything a klansman would imagine a non-WASP to be. Even Ahmad speaks like a devotee of Kayyam despite being a Jersey native with an Irish mother. The glib references to Islam itself and Islamist rationale, the 'ottoman' money smuggling operation and the woman who simply MUST call and
In 2006, the Don of American Literature was finally ready to address the events of 9/11. I recall that this was a time, for American artists, of numbness, of complete loss of hope and faith in the humanity we as artists struggle so tirelessly to portray, to express, to challenge, and to understand. As tons of debris were being hauled from World Trade Center Plaza, and the place was being dusted off and readied for a new era, so were Americas artists hauling out their own psychic detritus, in
Although it had been decades since I read anything by Updike, I still have clear memories of his short stories about the Maples, his Rabbit series, and The Centaur. Like others, Ive been guilty of pigeonholing him as being preoccupied with conventional middle-class people and their domestic issues (divorce, etc.). I also sensed that it wasnt fair to do that. In terms of craft, his use of literary devices is so smooth that one can read right past something thats exceedingly clever without even
Perhaps I'm ignorant of so much about Islamic faith and belief, but I found Updike's last book terrifying and powerful.The march to belief, under the tutelage of his imam, leads Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, son of an Irish-American mother and absent Muslim father, on a direct path to terrorism.What hit me so hard was Updike's skill in getting inside the head of a teenager, capturing his yearnings and anger, and merging his supposedly pristine faith with the ugliness and squalor of his New Prospect, NJ
This book is so full of unconvincing characters and racial stereotypes that I'm stunned it was published. If it hadn't been written by John Updike, I'm certain it never would have seen the light of day. If you see this book on a shelf, run as you might from an actual terrorist.
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